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AQUILA ('AxdXas), (1)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 248 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AQUILA ('AxdXas), (1) a See also:Jew from See also:Rome, who with his wife Prisca or Priscilla had settled in See also:Corinth, where See also:Paul stayed with them (Acts xviii. 2, 3). They became Christians and See also:fellow-workers with Paul, to whom they seem to have shown their devotion in some See also:special way (Rom. xvi. 3, 4). (2) A native of See also:Pontus, celebrated for a very literal and accurate See also:translation of the Old Testament into See also:Greek. See also:Epiphanius (De See also:Pond. et Melia. c. 15) preserves a tradition that he was a kinsman of the See also:emperor See also:Hadrian, who employed him in rebuilding See also:Jerusalem (Aelia Capitolina, q.v.), and that he was converted to See also:Christianity, but, on being reproved for practising See also:pagan See also:astrology, apostatized to Judaism. He is said also to have been a See also:disciple of See also:Rabbi 'Aqiba (d. A.D. 132), and seems to be referred to in Jewish writings as c5+py. Aquila's version is said to have been used in See also:place of the See also:Septuagint in the synagogues. • The Christians generally disliked it, alleging without due grounds that it rendered the Messianic passages incorrectly, but See also:Jerome and See also:Origen speak in its praise.

Origen incorporated it in his See also:

Hexapla. It was thought that this was the only copy extant, but in 1897 fragments of two codices were brought to the See also:Cambridge University Library. These have been published—the fragments containing i See also:Kings xx. 7-17; 2 Kings See also:xxiii. 12-27 by F. C. Burkitt in 1897, those containing parts of See also:Psalms xc.-ciii. by C. See also:Taylor in 1899. See F. C. Burkitt's See also:article in the Jewish See also:Encyclopaedia.

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