Bereshit / In Principio

Symmachus

fl. c. 190 · greek · translator

Greek translator of the Hebrew Bible, quoted by Chalcidius for Gen 1:1–2. His otiosum quid confusumque et inordinatum for tohu va-vohu is the source of the alia translatio the Carolingian and twelfth-century Latins cite without attribution.

Witnesses

VerseLemmaCruxes
Genesis 1:1Hebraei syluam generatam esse confitenturBereshit / in principio, out of nothing?, tohu va-vohu
Genesis 1:2cum sit omnium qualitatum receptrix, propriam nullam habet ex naturatohu va-vohu, out of nothing?