Sefer Hatodaah by R’ Eliyahu KiTov explains at great length the tragedy of the Septuagint. The translation provided, as any translation is, could only be at a very literal level meaning the homiletical, allegorical and mystical interpretations implicit in each and every letter of the Torah was abandoned. This left the Torah “an empty shell”. Coxnversely, Onkelos still retains these levels of deepness, after all, his Targum stems from Har Sinai. Furthermore, the translation meant the non – jews would claim to have a holding in the torah and could now find fault with it, stripping the reverence of the Torah away.
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