279 – Whether the true reading here be ‘traditio’ as Ben. has,
or ‘editio’ as Rom., the reference must be to the ἐκδόσεις
or versions which Origen brought together in his Hexapla,
of which the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh, (for there
was a seventh,) were only known by their numbers. See Art.
by Tregelles on ‘Ancient Versions,’ in Smith’s Dict. of
the Bible, vol. iii. p. 1623.