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1 1 | these teachers stands St. Jerome. Him the Catholic Church
2 1 | needs of the Church. For St. Jerome - "strenuous Catholic, learned
3 2 | Venerable Brethren, that Jerome was born in Stridonia, in
4 2(5) | S. Jerome, De viris ill., 135.~
5 2 | knowledge of his Savior.[10] Jerome himself tells us in several
6 4 | no heretics to vex him, Jerome betook himself to Constantinople,
7 5 | of the Bible. So well did Jerome carry this out that even
8 6 | 6.~ Nor was Jerome content merely to gather
9 8 | preliminary account of St. Jerome's life and labors we may
10 8 | individual writer. In each case Jerome shows us how, in composition,
11 8 | production of a work in common Jerome illustrates by the case
12 9 | writers we shall find that St. Jerome in no wise differs from
13 10 | 10.~ Jerome also insists on the supereminent
14 10 | virginity of the Mother of God, Jerome was content simply to reply:~
15 13 | 13.~ Jerome further shows that the immunity
16 13 | and of general opinion," Jerome briefly replied that he
17 14 | interpretation; indeed, for Jerome, a true prophet was to be
18 15 | Holding principles like these, Jerome was compelled, when he discovered
19 15 | Augustine, who wrote to Jerome that to the Sacred Books
20 16 | 16.~ St. Jerome's teaching on this point
21 22 | endorsed by the testimony of Jerome and other Fathers. Yet they
22 24 | they even try to claim St. Jerome as a patron of their views
23 24 | strange distortion of St. Jerome's words! He does not say
24 24 | the whole context. For St. Jerome "the true norm of history"
25 24 | ordinary use. More than this: Jerome maintains that belief in
26 24(44) | S. Jerome, In Jer., 23:15-17; In Matt.,
27 25 | 25.~ Thus St. Jerome is in complete agreement
28 26 | down by the Fathers. If Jerome were living now he would
29 27 | one another. Not thus did Jerome and Augustine and the other
30 27 | Jn. 19:35). So, too, St. Jerome: after rebuking the heretical
31 27(47) | S. Jerome, In Matt., Prol.; cf. Luke,
32 28 | Spirit realize that neither Jerome nor the other Fathers of
33 30 | 30.~ In a word, then: Jerome's teaching on the superexcellence
34 30 | to follow closely in St. Jerome's footsteps. If they will
35 31 | love of the Bible which St. Jerome exhibits in his whole life
36 31(50) | S. Jerome, Epist. ad Demetriadem,
37 32 | that the Vulgate version Jerome made is, in the judgment
38 33 | 33.~ But to return to St. Jerome's love of the Bible: this
39 33 | literature made any appeal to Jerome unless it derived its light
40 33(52) | S. Jerome, Epist. ad Paulinum, 58,
41 34 | earthly pilgrimage, St. Jerome's example shows us. First,
42 34 | possess a good will. Thus Jerome himself, immediately on
43 34 | field" (Mt. 13:44), so did Jerome say farewell to the idle
44 34 | to me.[53] ~So, too, St. Jerome; even though withdrawn into
45 34(54) | S. Jerome, Epist. ad Eustochium, 22,
46 35 | 35.~ But in a brief space Jerome became so enamored of the "
47 38 | quoted an Apocryphal book, Jerome was content to reply: "A
48 38 | Yet at the same time Jerome deplored the lamentable
49 39 | Catholics would cling to St. Jerome's golden rule and obediently
50 40 | have done that does St. Jerome invite us to study the Bible.
51 40(69) | S. Jerome, In Tit., 3:9.~
52 43 | Brethren, shall, with St. Jerome as our guide, never desist
53 44 | now to the Society of St. Jerome, which we ourselves were
54 45 | 45.~ If, then, St. Jerome begs for assiduous reading
55 45(76) | S. Jerome, Epist. ad Rusticum, 125,
56 45 | derived from the Bible, Jerome says:~A mere holy rusticity
57 45 | only the "uncultured" whom Jerome condemns. Learned clerics
58 47 | We learn, then, from St. Jerome's example and teaching the
59 47 | Lord and on His Scriptures, Jerome himself found there the "
60 47(82) | S. Jerome, Tract. de Ps. 147; cf.
61 48 | wish to defend. In this Jerome was marvelously expert.
62 49 | pleasure to illustrate from Jerome what we ourselves said in
63 49 | generis. How insistently Jerome urges on priests assiduous
64 49(84) | S. Jerome, Epist. ad Nepotianum, 52,
65 50 | always bear them in mind. Jerome's first rule is careful
66 50 | not for a moment deny that Jerome, in imitation of Latin and
67 51 | 51.~ Jerome then goes on to say that
68 51 | literal or historical meaning, Jerome goes on to seek our deeper
69 54 | plane, they would, with St. Jerome, realize how true are St.
70 55 | be found faithful" - St. Jerome lays down that we have got
71 55(98) | S. Jerome, Epist. ad Pammachium, 49,
72 58 | those "sweet fruits" which Jerome gathered from "the bitter
73 60 | 60.~ And so it was with Jerome himself: afflicted with
74 60 | Books of both Testaments Jerome saw the Church of God foretold.
75 60 | with the Bible meant for Jerome growing love of the Spouse
76 60 | him and love him.[114]~And Jerome had to endure much from
77 60(115)| S. Jerome, Epist ad Apronium, 139.~
78 62 | writing something."[117] Jerome's love of the Church, too,
79 62(118)| S. Jerome, In Agg., 2:1-10.~
80 63 | passages just given, does Jerome celebrate the intimate union
81 63 | So convinced indeed was Jerome that familiarity with the
82 63 | center around Christ; hence Jerome, commenting on the words
83 65 | 65.~ Hence was Jerome wondrously uplifted to love
84 67 | Immense, then, was the profit Jerome derived from reading Scripture;
85 67 | one, then, can wonder that Jerome should have been so powerfully
86 67 | to recognize the hand of Jerome in the words written from
87 67 | memories such as these, Jerome could, while far away from
88 68 | echoed from the desert; yet Jerome still speaks in his writings,
89 68 | throughout the world."[132] Jerome still calls to us. His voice
90 68 | duty demand. The voice of Jerome summons those Christian
91 68 | of Peter, would listen to Jerome's voice. When he lived in
92 68 | tottering fabric of society. May Jerome, who so loved God's Church
93 68(133)| S. Jerome, Epist ad Damasum, 15, 2,
94 69 | merely to embrace under Jerome's guidance Catholic doctrine
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