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augustine_hippo · c. 398 · score 0.02
Augustine to Jerome, my dear and venerable brother, greetings in the Lord. Your letter reached me — and I must confess, it stung. But truth sometimes stings, and I would rather be stung by a friend than flattered by an enemy. Let me address the matter of the letter's delivery first, because this seems to have caused yo …
augustine_hippo · c. 392 · score 0.02
Paul's rebuke was real, necessary, and true. And the fact that Scripture preserves it is one of the great guarantees of its honesty: it does not conceal the faults of the apostles. I say this with the deepest respect for your learning, which surpasses mine in every way. But truth matters more than deference, and I trus …
augustine_hippo · c. 397 · score 0.02
Augustine to Jerome, my venerable brother, greetings in the Lord. I wrote to you some time ago about the passage in Galatians — Paul's rebuke of Peter — and I do not know whether my letter reached you. The uncertainty gnaws at me, because I would not want you to think I raised the matter and then dropped it out of indi …
augustine_hippo · c. 397 · score 0.02
Letter 67 — To Jerome: On a False Rumor, and the Longing for True Exchange (A.D. 402) To my most beloved and longed-for lord, my honored brother in Christ and fellow-priest, Jerome — Augustine sends greetings in the Lord. I have heard that my letter reached you. I have not yet received a reply, but I do not doubt your …
augustine_hippo · c. 392 · score 0.02
Augustine to Jerome, greetings in the Lord. I have long wanted to write to you — not as an equal addressing an equal (for who would presume to that?), but as one student of Scripture to another, eager to learn from someone whose labors in translating and interpreting the sacred texts are known throughout the world. But …
augustine_hippo · c. 399 · score 0.02
But if you meant the word in the sense of the cheerfulness that ought to exist between dear friends discussing together, then teach me how we may achieve this: how, when something strikes us that we have not proved — something that seems unpersuasive to our slower understanding — and we attempt to assert what seems rig …
augustine_hippo · c. 413 · score 0.01
This is what I ask you to resolve, if you can. For the Pelagians, who deny original sin, find comfort in our inability to explain how the soul becomes sinful. If we cannot demonstrate this, they say, then perhaps the soul is not sinful at birth, and infants do not need the redemption of Christ. We cannot allow this con …
augustine_hippo · c. 399 · score 0.01
I sent your Charity a lengthy letter some time ago in reply to the one you recall sending through your holy son Asterius, who is now not only my brother but also my colleague. Whether that letter has managed to reach your hands, I do not yet know, except that through our most sincere brother Firmus you write that if th …
augustine_hippo · c. 413 · score 0.01
I have asked and I ask our God, who called us into his kingdom and glory, that what I write to you, holy brother Jerome, consulting you about things I do not know, may by his will be fruitful for us. Although you are much older than I, I too am now an old man who consults you; yet for learning what is needed, no age se …
augustine_hippo · c. 413 · score 0.01
What I wrote to you, honorable brother Jerome, asking about the human soul — whether individual new souls are created for individuals as they are born, and where such a soul contracts the bond of sin which must be loosed through the sacrament of Christ's grace even in newborn infants — expanded into a volume of conside …
augustine_hippo · c. 397 · score 0.01
If only I could live near you — if not under the same roof, at least nearby — and enjoy frequent and deep conversation with you in the Lord! Since that cannot be, I beg you to take pains to maintain and improve and perfect this one way in which we can be together: by letter. Do not refuse to write to me, even seldom. P …
augustine_hippo · c. 399 · score 0.01
Far be it from that pious humility and truthful self-estimation with which you are endowed, for unless you possessed it, you would not have said: "Would that I might deserve your embrace, and that in mutual conversation we might teach or learn something." Now since you yourself spoke without pretense or deceit, conside …
augustine_hippo · c. 399 · score 0.01
This Paul could not tolerate, for it struck at the heart of the Gospel's universality. If we say, as some do, that Peter and Paul staged their disagreement for pedagogical purposes — that the entire scene at Antioch was a planned performance — then we make the Scriptures party to a holy lie. And once we open that door, …
augustine_hippo · c. 413 · score 0.01
Is the man who steals also guilty of adultery, murder, and sacrilege? If not, how is one who stumbles in one point guilty of all? The Stoics held that all sins are equal. But the Lord himself said that some sins are greater than others: "He who delivered me to you has the greater sin." And: "It will be more tolerable f …
augustine_hippo · c. 413 · score 0.01
In this matter, when he accepted my counsel and direction willingly and obediently, I asked him to return through us on his way back from you. Holding him to this promise, I believed the Lord had granted me an opportunity to write to you about those things I desire to learn through you. For I was seeking someone to sen …
augustine_hippo · c. 390 · score 0.01
Augustine to Jerome, his dearest lord and brother and fellow presbyter, worthy of every honor and affection — greetings. 1. Your devotion to studying God's word has become as familiar to me as the face of a dear friend — even though I have never seen your face. For though I long greatly to know you in person, I feel I …
augustine_hippo · c. 398 · score 0.01
And once we admit that Scripture can lie nobly, we have no principle by which to resist anyone who claims that any other passage is similarly "noble" rather than true. I do not doubt Peter's greatness. I do not doubt his faithfulness after Pentecost. But I note that the Lord himself predicted Peter would deny him three …
augustine_hippo · c. 390 · score 0.01
3. This is not a criticism of your Hebrew scholarship, which I am in no position to make. It is a practical concern about what happens when a translation that differs from what people know is suddenly imposed on them without preparation. Could you consider attaching notes explaining the differences between the Hebrew o …
augustine_hippo · c. 413 · score 0.01
But anyone who considers himself recognizes how differently the soul actually behaves. Those who wish the soul to be a part of God say in vain that the defilement and disgrace we see in the most wicked people comes not from the soul itself but from the body; for even without the body, the soul can be swollen with pride …