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jerome · c. 375 · score 0.02
… ion owed to the sheep. Away with all pomp and circumstance — let the majesty of imperial Rome stand aside. I am speaking to the successor of the fisherman, the disciple of the cross. Following no leader but Christ, I am in communion with no one but Your Blessedness — that is, with the chair of Peter. I know this is the …
jerome · c. 375 · score 0.02
The tireless enemy follows me close, and the assaults I suffer in the desert are fiercer than ever. The Arian madness rages, and the powers of this world back it. The church here is split into three factions, and each one is eager to claim me. The monks' hostility is long-standing, and it is directed squarely at me. Me …
jerome · c. 375 · score 0.02
If their belief matches their explanation, I don't condemn them for holding it. But if my belief matches their stated position, they should let me express their meaning in my own words. 5. I implore Your Blessedness, therefore — by the crucified Savior of the world and by the consubstantial Trinity — to authorize me by …
jerome · c. 375 · score 0.02
Letter 15: To Pope Damasus (376-377 AD) [Written from the Syrian desert. Jerome appeals to the Bishop of Rome to settle two burning questions: (1) which of the three rival claimants to the see of Antioch is the legitimate bishop, and (2) is the correct theological formula "three hypostases" or "one hypostasis" when spe …
jerome · c. 375 · score 0.02
Where, I should like to know, did this doctrine acquire its apostles? Where is its Paul, its new "teacher of the Gentiles"? When I ask them what "three hypostases" is supposed to mean, they answer: "Three persons subsisting." I reply that this is exactly what I believe. They are not satisfied with the meaning; they dem …
jerome · c. 375 · score 0.02
Since angels, sky, earth, and sea all existed at that time, the name of essence that God claimed for himself must refer to absolute being, which is his alone. And because his nature alone is perfect, and because in the three persons there subsists but one Godhead, which truly IS and is one nature — whoever, in the name …
jerome · c. 382 · score 0.01
Letter 36: To Pope Damasus (384 AD, Rome) [Jerome's reply to the five questions above. For questions 2 and 4, he refers Damasus to existing treatments by Tertullian, Novatian, and Origen. The remaining three he tackles in detail. This is Jerome at his scholarly best — and most confident — advising the bishop of Rome on …
jerome · c. 376 · score 0.01
To Pope Damasus [This letter, written from Constantinople in 381 AD, is Jerome's earliest expository letter. In it he explains at length the vision recorded in Isaiah chapter 6 and elaborates on its mystical meaning. Jerome argues against those who identify "the Lord sitting upon a throne" as God the Father with the se …
jerome · c. 375 · score 0.01
Letter 16: To Pope Damasus (377-378 AD) [Written a few months after the preceding. Jerome appeals again to Damasus to settle the Antiochene dispute. He declares his sole criterion: "Whoever clings to the chair of Peter is accepted by me."] 1. The importunate widow in the Gospel finally got her hearing [Matthew 15:28]. …
jerome · c. 377 · score 0.01
To Damasus [In this letter, Jerome provides Damasus with a detailed allegorical interpretation of the parable of the prodigal son at the pope's request.]
jerome · c. 376 · score 0.01
To Pope Damasus [Jerome's reply to the preceding letter. He exposes the error of Hilary of Poitiers, who supposed "Hosanna" signified "redemption of the house of David," and demonstrates that in the Gospels it is a quotation from Psalm 118:25 and that its true meaning is "Save now!" Jerome writes: "Let us leave the tri …