Thomas Aquinas

But if we wish, we can accept the words of Jerome in his book on the best kind of translation, who says that a follower of Christ does not incur any mark of falsehood: for the office of a good translator is not to consider the words but the sense. Therefore he set forth the sense of certain writings in Jeremias and certain others in Zechariah, just as it is found in Mark that he sets forth the authority of Isaiah, one part of which is from Malachi and the other from Isaiah. …

Commentary on Matthew ↗