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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 154

Letter CXXXI. From Augustine.

… Ctesiphon had written to Jerome for his opinion on two points in the teaching of Pelagius, (1) his quietism and (2) his denial of original sin. Jerome now refutes these two doctrines and points out …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 130

Letter CXIX. To Minervius and Alexander.

… Minervius and Alexander two monks of Toulouse had written to Jerome asking him to explain for them a large number of passages in scripture. Jerome in his reply postpones most of these to a future …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 188

Letter XXIX.

[1517] [The letters to Jerome, and Jerome's replies, are among the most interesting and important in this correspondence, especially those parts which relate to Jerome's revision of the Latin version of the Bible …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 16

Letter VIII. To Niceas, Sub-Deacon of Aquileia.

… 298. [111] Jerome again refers to his own frailty in Letters XIV. § 6, XVIII. § 11, and XLVIII. § 20. [112] 1 Cor. xiii. 7. [113] Papa. The word "pope" was at this time used as a …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 1

ANTE-NICENE FATHERS

… of his works, is thus noticed by Jerome in his Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum: [4] "Tertullian, a presbyter, the first Latin writer after Victor and Apollonius, was a native of the province of Africa and city …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 94

Letter LXXVI. To Abigaus.

… He had asked the help of Jerome's prayers in his struggles with evil and Jerome now writes to cheer and to console him. He concludes his remarks by commending to his especial care the …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 215

Introduction.

… Having been ordained he was introduced to Jerome (then living at Bethlehem, in 395) through Paulinus of Nola, who was the friend of Sulpicius Severus. After staying with Jerome for a considerable time he begged …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 327

Letter CLXV.

… 410. [2703] ) To My Truly Pious Lords Marcellinus [2704] and Anapsychia, Sons Worthy of Being Esteemed with All the Love Due to Their Position, Jerome Sends Greeting in Christ. Chap. I. 1. At last I …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 17

Letter X. To Paul, an Old Man of Concordia.

… V. [137] For some account of this writer see Jerome, De V. iii. c. xcvii. [138] A Roman annalist some of whose works are still extant. He was contemporary with but probably older than Jerome

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 148

Chapter XII.--The Bishops in Jerusalem.

… affords us no assistance; for although it connects him among other bishops with the first (Armen.) or third (Jerome) year of Severus, it does not pretend to give the date of accession, and in one …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 13

Letter III. To Rufinus the Monk. [23]

… Farewell in Christ. [23] In Jerome's day this term included all--whether hermits or coenobites--who forsook the world and embraced an ascetic life. [24] Cf. Eph. iii. 20. [25] 1 Cor. ii. 9 …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 68

Alexander of Cappadocia

… xi. [1231] It was the opinion of Jerome in his Catalogusthat the Clement spoken of by Alexander was Clement of Alexandria. This Clement, at any rate, did live up to the time of the Emperor …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 251

Preface to Translation of Origen on St. Luke.

… Peter in Galatians ii., which occasioned the controversy between Jerome and Augustin. Jerome says: Paul does not go straight to the point, but is like a man walking in secret passages: his object is to …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 15

[403] John vi. 64.

… 25. [416] Jerome's Tract on the Perpetual Virginity of the Blessed Virgin appeared about 383, and was written at Rome in the episcopate of Damasus (363-384). The work of Helvidius which Jerome controverted …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 21

Jerome on the first chapter of Matthew.

… have been added to these same Chronicles by Jerome of sacred memory." Jerome, in his Epistle to Chromatius and Heliodorus, prefixed to the Martyrology which bears Jerome's Name. "It is evident that our Lord …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 101

Letter LXXXI. To Rufinus.

… He was a monk in Jerome's monastery at Bethlehem. [2495] Gal. v. 15. Letter LXXXII. To Theophilus Bishop of Alexandria. Two years after his former attempt (see Letter LXIII.) Theophilus again wrote to Jerome

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