translate English to French: Today we know that the Greek translation of the Old Testament produced at Alexandria - the Septuagint - is more than a simple (and in that sense really less than satisfactory) translation of the Hebrew text: it is an independent textual witness and a distinct and important step in the history of revelation, one which brought about this encounter in a way that was decisive for the birth and spread of Christianity.
La rencontre du message biblique et de la pensée grecque n'était pas le fait du hasard. La vision de saint Paul, à qui les chemins vers l'Asie se fermaient et qui ensuite vit un Macédonien lui apparaître et qui l'entendit l'appeler : « Passe en Macédoine et viens à notre secours » (cf.