"Arieh ben Guni, writing in "La nica literatura revuo", deprecates himself as "nur humila spicovendisto" ("only a humble spice vendor") and commends Gregor's remarkable polyglot abilities.He finds fault with Gregor's approach, however, declaring that when comparing Zamenhof's Esperanto translation with French, German or Russian translations Gregor had failed to differentiate between those based on the Hebrew Targum, the Greek Septuagint or the Latin Vulgate and the more literal translations which, though somewhat lacking in style, made use of comparative philology to supply conjectural modifications for doubtful words.