Greek, we may believe, was chosen by the Holy Spirit to be the vehicle of these communications, as, through the conquests of Alexander the Great, the language most widely employed at that time, and in particular that of the so-called Hellenist Jews, who made public use of the Septuagint, or Greek version of the Old Testament, and were, so far as converts to Christianity, principal agents at the first in the promulgation of the. faith outside Palestine.