Gen. ii. 7, lxx. is ἐνεφύσησεν
εἰς τὸ
πρόσωπον
αὐτοῦ. “εἰς τὸ
πρόσωπον”
is thence imported into John xx. 22. Mr. C.F.H. Johnston notes,
“This addition…is found in the Prayer at the Little
Entrance in the Liturgy of St. Mark. Didymus, in his
treatise on the Holy Spirit, which we have only in St.
Jerome’s Latin Version, twice used ‘insufflans in
faciem corum,” §§6, 33. The text is
quoted in this form by Epiphanius Adv. Hær. lxxiv.
13, and by St. Aug. De Trin. iv. 20.” To
these instances may be added Athan. Ep. i. § 8, and
the versions of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Thebaic, known as the
Sahidic, and the Memphitic, or Coptic, both ascribed to the 3rd
century.