Annotatio XXIII

”God completed his work on the seventh day.” — Genesis 2:2

The Seventy interpreters [Septuagint], as Jerome noted in the Hebrew Traditions, for what is read in the Hebrew truth, “God completed” (בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי), that is, “on the seventh day all his work,” translated ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἕκτῃ, that is, “on the sixth day.”¹ And Philo and Theodoret cite and expound this passage in the same manner. But it does not much matter whether you say God completed his work on the sixth or on the seventh day: for what Moses said — that God completed [it] on the seventh day by resting — the Seventy said, that God completed [it] on the sixth day by finishing.