Moreover the phrase "this law" is so ambiguous as to raise a much greater difficulty than that caused by the Greek mistranslation of the Hebrew word for "copy.
The title "Deuteronomy" is due to a mistranslation by the Septuagint of the clause in chap.
And thus we find this chain of authorities hanging link by link one upon another, and all ultimately on one and the same hook; and that a mistranslation of the words 'ancien scripture,' used by Prisot.
The mistake seems to have arisen from a mistranslation of the old French word esclistre, which means lightning.
See shows that this idea is due to a mistranslation of Alfraganus by Plato Tibertinus in 1537, and that Ptolemy did not speak of "five red stars," but five nebulous stars, as stated by Christmann and Golius.
And it is with a view to this question, and under a persuasion of a wrong done to Judas by gross mistranslation disturbing the Greek text, that I entered at all upon this little memorandum.
The incoherences are gone; the contradictions have vanished; and the gross physical absurdities, which undermistranslation had perplexed the reverential student, no longer disfigure the Scriptures.
Acts(3) is put into the mouth of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and shown that the proof passage rests upon a mistranslation of the original in the Septuagint.
The same mistranslation is found in the Vulgate in Hosea iv.
