Lest anyone should much hesitate in admitting the observation that I have proposed, it is fitting for me to provide illustration and confirmation of the same by one and another example.  We have in Acts 13:35, διὸ καὶ ἐν ἑτέρῳ λέγει, Οὐ δώσεις τὸν ὅσιόν σου ἰδεῖν διαφθοράν, wherefore he saith also in another, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption .  Our Version  translates it, Waarom hy ook in enen anderen  [Psalm] zegt, etc ., wherefore he also says in another  [Psalm] , etc...

Verse 11: [1]   And after him was ( 1 Chron. 11:27 ) Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite.  ( see 1 Chron. 11:13, 14 ) And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop ( or, for foraging [2] ), where was a piece of ground full of lentiles:  and the people fled from the Philistines. [ And the Philistines were gathered together in station , לַחַיָּה  [3] ]  They render it variously.  To Haiatha  (Jonathan) [as if it were the proper name of a place].  To wild beasts  (Septuagint), as if...

But, so that I might return to the question proposed, Interpreters appear to have raised a tempest in a teacup, and to have applied excessive labor in resolving the doubt, where all things appear to me to be altogether plain.  Certainly that λέγει, he says , or διὸ λέγει, wherefore he says , thus posited absolutely as it occurs here, is to the Apostle a familiar formula for citing the text of the Old Testament, answering to the Hebrews’ manner of speech in citing the old Scripture, לכך אמר,...