He was born at Sinope on the Black Sea coast, thus called Aquila of Pontus. He translated the Old Testament into Greek language in an extremely literal form that most of the Jews of his time preferred his work to the Septuagint version.
He was born at Sinope on the Black Sea coast, thus called Aquila of Pontus. He translated the Old Testament into Greek language in an extremely literal form that most of the Jews of his time preferred his work to the Septuagint version.