Probably both will have to be taken into account to explain all the facts.
Another disturbing influence, which will affect especially the quotations in the Gospels, is the possibility, perhaps even probability, that many of these are made, not directly from either Hebrew or LXX, but from or through Targums.

This would seem to be the case especially with the remarkable applications of prophecy in St.Matthew.It must be admitted as possible that the Evangelist has followed some Jewish interpretation that seemed to bear a Christian construction.

The quotation in Matt.ii.6, with its curious insertion of the negative ([Greek: oudamos elachistae] for [Greek: oligostos]), reappears identically in Justin (Dial.

c.
78).

We shall probably have to touch upon this quotation when we come to consider Justin's relations to the canonical Gospels.