But Philo himself wrote in Greek and even read his Bible in Greek. His version of the Bible is called the “seventy,” in Latin Septuagint, an allusion to the seventy-two scholars who were held to have translated it into Greek. These scholars were said to be divinely inspired, so that Philo assumed his Greek Bible could be read as the word of God, and not a second-hand version of that word in a new language.
