Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series • VOLUME 6
Jerome — Principal Works
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13. And whereas you think he is blessed who is undefiled in the way, and walks in His law, you must interpret the former clause by the latte
13. And whereas you think he is blessed who is undefiled in the way, and walks in His law, you must interpret the former clause by the latter. From the many proofs I have adduced you have learnt that no one has been able to fulfil the law. And if the Apostle, in comparison with the grace of Christ, reckoned those things as filth…
2,259 wordsSECTION 242C. What I say is this--you must at least allow that they have no sin who cannot sin.
C. What I say is this--you must at least allow that they have no sin who cannot sin. A. I will allow it, if they have been baptized into Christ; and if you will not then immediately bind me to agree with your opinion that a man can be without sin if he chooses; for they neither have the power nor the will; but they are free fro…
2,012 wordsSECTION 243Prefaces.
Prefaces. ------------------------ The Prefaces to Jerome's works have in many cases a special value. This value is sometimes personal; they are the free expressions of his feelings to those whom he trusts. Sometimes it lies in the mention of particular events; sometimes in showing the special difficulties he encountered as a …
1,669 wordsSECTION 244Preface to the Translation of Origen's Two Homilies on the Song of Songs.
Preface to the Translation of Origen's Two Homilies on the Song of Songs. Written at Rome, a.d. 383. Jerome to the most holy Pope Damasus: Origen, whilst in his other books he has surpassed all others, has in the Song of Songs surpassed himself. He wrote ten volumes upon it, which amount to almost twenty thousand lines, and i…
724 wordsSECTION 245Preface to the Book on the Sites and Names of Hebrew Places.
Preface to the Book on the Sites and Names of Hebrew Places. For the scope and value of this book see Prolegomena. It was written a.d. 388. Eusebius, who took his second name from the blessed Martyr Pamphilus, after he had written the ten books of his "Ecclesiastical History," the Chronicle of Dates, of which I published a Lat…
1,485 wordsSECTION 246Preface to the Commentary on Ecclesiastes.
Preface to the Commentary on Ecclesiastes. Addressed to Paula and Eustochium, Bethlehem, a.d. 388. I remember that, about five years ago, when I was still living at Rome, I read Ecclesiastes to the saintly Blesilla, [5385] so that I might provoke her to the contempt of this earthly scene, and to count as nothing all that she s…
1,571 wordsSECTION 247Prefaces to the Books of the Vulgate Version of the Old Testament.
Prefaces to the Books of the Vulgate Version of the Old Testament. This version was not undertaken with ecclesiastical sanction as was the case with the Gospels, but at the request of private friends, or from Jerome's "own sense of the imperious necessity of the work." It was wholly made at Bethlehem, and was begun about a.d. 3…
2,248 wordsSECTION 248I am compelled at every step in my treatment of the books of Holy Scripture to reply to the abuse of my opponents, who charge my translation
I am compelled at every step in my treatment of the books of Holy Scripture to reply to the abuse of my opponents, who charge my translation with being a censure of the Seventy; as though Aquila among Greek authors, and Symmachus and Theodotion, had not rendered word for word, or paraphrased, or combined the two methods in a sor…
2,632 wordsSECTION 249Book of Job.
[5406] x. 11. [5407] To split. The word has no sort of etymological connection with schinos. Susanna 54, 55, 58, 59. When the first elder says the crime was committed under a mastich tree (schinos), Daniel answers, "God shall cut thee in two" (schisei). [5408] The mastich tree. [5409] To saw. [5410] The holm-oak. [5411] In …
993 wordsSECTION 250Books of Solomon.
Books of Solomon. This is addressed to Paula and Eustochium. Jerome describes the numerous emendations he has had to make in what was then the received Latin text, but says he has not found the same necessity in dealing with Ecclesiasticus. He adds, "All I aim at is to give you a revised edition of the Canonical Scriptures, and…
1,107 wordsSECTION 251Preface to Translation of Origen on St. Luke.
Preface to Translation of Origen on St. Luke. Addressed to Paula and Eustochium, a.d. 388. A few days ago you told me that you had read some commentaries on Matthew and Luke, of which one was equally dull in perception and expression, the other frivolous in expression, sleepy in sense. Accordingly you requested me to translate…
2,228 wordsSECTION 252[5428] Angulis. So. Cic. Rep. i. 2.
[5428] Angulis. So. Cic. Rep. i. 2. Ephesians. This Commentary was specially prized by Jerome as exhibiting his true views (Letter LXXXIV. 2), and they became in consequence one of the chief subjects of controversy between him and Rufinus, who traced in them, not unjustly, the influence of Origen. It was written immediately af…
2,022 wordsSECTION 253Book ii. has, instead of a Preface, merely a line calling the attention of Eustochium to its opening words.
Book ii. has, instead of a Preface, merely a line calling the attention of Eustochium to its opening words. The Preface to Book iii. has a noteworthy passage on the sack of Rome and its results. Who would believe that Rome, built up by the conquest of the whole world, had collapsed, that the mother of nations had become also t…
738 wordsSECTION 254Prefaces to the Commentaries on the Minor Prophets.
Prefaces to the Commentaries on the Minor Prophets. For the order and date of writing of these Commentaries see the Preface to Amos, Book iii., and the note there. Hosea. This Commentary was dedicated to Pammachius, a.d. 406 (sixth consulate of Arcadius--Preface to Amos, Book iii. The Preface to Book i. is chiefly taken up wi…
2,424 wordsSECTION 255Proverbs
Proverbs [1264]1:1-6 [1265]1:3 [1266]1:7 [1267]3:5-6 [1268]3:9 [1269]3:21 [1270]4:5-9 [1271]4:23 [1272]4:23 [1273]4:23 [1274]4:23 [1275]5:3 [1276]5:15 [1277]5:22 [1278]6:8 [1279]6:20 [1280]6:26 [1281]6:27-28 [1282]6:27-28 [1283]7:2 [1284]7:3 [1285]7:27 [1286]9:18 [1287]10:1 [1288]10:9 [1289]10:9 [1290]10:19 [1291]13:4 [1292]13:…
2,445 wordsSECTION 2562 Corinthians
2 Corinthians [3679]1:5 [3680]1:7 [3681]1:12 [3682]2:4 [3683]2:7 [3684]2:7 [3685]2:7 [3686]2:7 [3687]2:7 [3688]2:10 [3689]2:10 [3690]2:10 [3691]2:10-11 [3692]2:11 [3693]2:15 [3694]2:16 [3695]2:16 [3696]3:2 [3697]3:2 [3698]3:4-6 [3699]3:4-6 [3700]3:6 [3701]3:6 [3702]3:6 [3703]3:7 [3704]3:7 [3705]3:10 [3706]3:11 [3707]3:14-15 [37…
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