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 1 3   |           especially in those of St. Peter: these were often
 2 3   |          thing in the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. John and
 3 3   |       Gospels of St. Matthew and St. John and in the Catholic
 4 3   |     whole range of the Bible. As St. Jerome says, "To be ignorant
 5 3(9)|                                  St. Hieron. de stud. Script.
 6 3   |    convincing arguments, that as St. Jerome again most truly
 7 4   |     worthy of great themes. This St. Augustine thoroughly understood
 8 5   |        us listen to the words of St. Jerome, in his Epistle
 9 5   |         Scriptural reading."(19) St. Gregory the Great, than
10 5   |        written word of God."(20) St. Augustine, however, warns
11 5   |          it interiorly;"(21) and St. Gregory instructs sacred
12 7   |       disciples of the Apostles, St. Clement of Rome, St. Ignatius
13 7   |   Apostles, St. Clement of Rome, St. Ignatius of Antioch, St.
14 7   |         St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Polycarp - or the apologists,
15 7   |          the apologists, such as St. Justin and St. Irenaeus,
16 7   |           such as St. Justin and St. Irenaeus, we find that
17 7   |        Alexandria could boast of St. Clement and St. Cyril;
18 7   |         boast of St. Clement and St. Cyril; Palestine, of Eusebius
19 7   |        of Eusebius and the other St. Cyril; Cappadocia, of St. $
20 7   |        St. Cyril; Cappadocia, of St. $asil the Great and the
21 7   |       asil the Great and the two St. Gregories. of Nazianzus
22 7   | Nazianzus and Nyssa; Antioch, of St. John Chrysostom, in whom
23 7   |      names as great: Tertullian, St. Cyprian, St. Hilary, St.
24 7   |         Tertullian, St. Cyprian, St. Hilary, St. Ambrose, St.
25 7   |         St. Cyprian, St. Hilary, St. Ambrose, St. Leo the Great,
26 7   |         St. Hilary, St. Ambrose, St. Leo the Great, St. Gregory
27 7   |      Ambrose, St. Leo the Great, St. Gregory the Great; most
28 7   |       Great; most famous of all, St. Augustine and St. Jerome,
29 7   |        of all, St. Augustine and St. Jerome, of whom the former
30 7   |       see in Walafrid Strabo and St. Anselm of Laon, or expended
31 7   |          their integrity, as did St. Peter Damian and Blessed
32 7   |         Scripture. In this kind, St. Bernard is pre-eminent;
33 7   |  greatest name among them all is St. Thomas of Aquin.~
34 13  |     older tongues,"(30) to quote St. Augustine, will be useful
35 13  |     office of a commentator," as St. Jerome says, "is to set
36 14  |         guide and their teacher. St. Irenaeus long since laid
37 14  |            This is inculcated by St. Jerome, and still more
38 14  |         still more frequently by St. Augustine, who thus justly
39 15  |      rule so wisely laid down by St. Augustine-not to depart
40 16  |       the prince of theologians, St. Thomas of Aquin;(43) who,
41 16  |   theology under the guidance of St. Thomas of Aquin, and a
42 17  |        beautifully alluded to by St. John Chrysostom, when describing
43 18  |         and both are careful, as St. Augustine warns us, "not
44 18  |       the rule also laid down by St. Augustine, for the theologian: "
45 19  |       according to the saying of St. Thomas. And in another
46 20  |       Fathers. "Therefore," says St. Augustine, "since they
47 20  |          Head dictated."(58) And St. Gregory the Great thus
48 21  |      what was true. The words of St. Augustine to St. )erome
49 21  |        words of St. Augustine to St. )erome may sum up what
50 23  |          the Scripture, in which St. Augustine himself confessed
51 25  |  Apostolic Benediction.~Given at St. Peter's, at Rome, the 18th