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1001 68 | calamity must come if men persist in sweeping on one side
1002 38 | regarded them as his own personal enemies. "To put it briefly,"
1003 56 | must be a fine thing to pervert the meaning of the text
1004 29 | disputing with the Scribes and Pharisees. Whether teaching or disputing
1005 22 | consequently square with phenomena, history on the contrary,
1006 24(45) | Id., In Philem., 4.~
1007 24 | Commentary on the Epistle to Philemon he says:~"What I mean is
1008 57 | race and not the leisurely philosophical schools with their choice
1009 20 | false deduction. For sound philosophy teaches that the senses
1010 46 | Venerable Brethren, that picked men, both of the secular
1011 2 | Prophet. This "youthful piece of work"[8] kindled in him
1012 34 | while my gaze could not pierce to what the latter hid.
1013 34 | solace during this earthly pilgrimage, St. Jerome's example shows
1014 61 | that young people must be piously brought up, the married
1015 2 | himself tells us in several places how assiduously he toiled:~
1016 13 | were full of eyes will be plain to anybody who realizes
1017 54 | lift themselves to a higher plane, they would, with St. Jerome,
1018 63 | and the New, and the Tree planted on either side is Christ.[123] ~
1019 34 | even then I took up my Plautus! Then perhaps I would come
1020 1 | provide for the faithful plenteous "consolation from the Scriptures."[1]
1021 29 | Capharnaum, He took His points and His arguments from the
1022 66 | those who consider worldly pomp a mere offscouring and all
1023 20 | things in nature. But the Pontiff's own words show that this
1024 37 | teacher through the Roman Pontiffs. Thus, with a view to putting
1025 39 | or the decisions of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.~Would
1026 69 | the seventh year of our Pontificate. ~BENEDICT XV ~
1027 56 | Sacraments of God. To make the populace gape by spinning words and
1028 59 | be clad in silks, enjoy popular applause, find it impossible
1029 44 | and simple form so as to popularize their use. Much again must
1030 15 | impious folk like Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian."[40] Here he
1031 8 | powers; hence he is able to portray and describe for us their
1032 13 | Ezechiel's first vision as portraying the Four Gospels, he remarks:~
1033 34 | be well prepared and must possess a good will. Thus Jerome
1034 32 | ecclesiastical writer of old possessed. It is due to this familiarity
1035 68 | city once gloried in the possession of the relics of "the Greatest
1036 7 | Biblical questions which poured in upon him from all sides;
1037 61 | Christ dies of hunger in poverty?"[116]~
1038 52 | to despise the history as poverty-stricken."[94] Consequently he repudiates
1039 67 | Jerome should have been so powerfully drawn to those spots in
1040 60 | of God foretold. Did not practically every one of the illustrious
1041 57 | principles like these to practice, and if their elders would
1042 62 | slip no opportunity for praising the Spouse of Christ:~The
1043 45 | learn the Psalter by heart; pray unceasingly; watch over
1044 38 | source of salvation;[66] he prayed, too, with all earnestness
1045 35 | assistance and to his brethren's prayers his Commentaries on various
1046 35 | Consequently, he was ever humbly praying for God's assistance and
1047 29 | point a little: when Christ preached to the people, whether on
1048 50 | text perfectly clear. The precise meaning, too, that attaches
1049 16 | only of its very nature precludes the presence of error, but
1050 32 | judgment of all capable men, preferable to any other ancient version,
1051 60 | honor in the Old Testament prefigure the Church, God's Spouse?
1052 8 | 8.~ After this preliminary account of St. Jerome's
1053 53 | regarding the Old Testament as preparing for and foreshadowing the
1054 36 | custom to fight for the prerogatives of a Christian, not to overpass
1055 5 | lose through his different presentation of it. Men thought I had
1056 61 | that if this could only be preserved human society would recover
1057 36 | teach myself - a wretchedly presumptous teacher! - but I learned
1058 19 | 19.~ Yet no one can pretend that certain recent writers
1059 68 | unless God steps in to prevent it. And surely this calamity
1060 65 | Gospel: "There is one most priceless pearl: the knowledge of
1061 34 | with Cicero.~My swelling pride shrank from its modest garb,
1062 61 | extolled, and since the primal law of Christian religion
1063 1 | TO ALL THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCHBISHOPS, ~BISHOPS,
1064 8 | content to affirm as a general principle - what indeed pertains to
1065 46 | that "afterwards, both in private and in public, whether by
1066 60 | that the Church's greatest privileges were set forth by Christ
1067 30 | do so they will learn to prize as he prized the treasure
1068 30 | will learn to prize as he prized the treasure of the Scriptures,
1069 15 | satisfactorily settled the problem, he would return to it again
1070 52 | this deeper meaning we must proceed in due order, "lest in our
1071 57 | puff out their cheeks and produce a foaming torrent of words;
1072 5 | though I looked more like professor than student, yet I went
1073 54 | the literal to the more profound meaning in temperate fashion,
1074 52 | meaning:~When all these promises of which the Prophets sang
1075 38 | who left the Church; he promptly regarded them as his own
1076 32 | of use in the Church" was pronounced by the Council of Trent "
1077 35 | that he himself serves as a proof of the extent to which a
1078 20 | deceived as regards their own proper and immediate object. Therefore,
1079 60 | Church? How many Psalms and Prophecies he saw fulfilled in that
1080 49 | touch men's souls save in proportion as they are "informed" by
1081 1 | precious instructions. These we propose to set before you and so
1082 1(4) | S. Prosper, Carmen de ingratis, 57~
1083 31(50) | Demetriadem, 130, 20; cf. Prov. 4:6,8.~
1084 46 | years has shown, it has proved a great gain to the Church.
1085 59 | sweeter than to learn of God's Providence, to enter into His shrine
1086 50 | meaning:~I earnestly warn the prudent reader not to pay attention
1087 26 | implicit quotations" or "pseudo-historical narratives," or in "kinds
1088 46 | both in private and in public, whether by writing or by
1089 44 | other countries who have published the entire New Testament,
1090 57 | certain eloquent folk who puff out their cheeks and produce
1091 59 | says much the same to his pupil Paula: ~Tell me whether
1092 61 | holy integrity of life, pure souls have the beauty of
1093 39 | books as though they were of purely human origin; Those, too,
1094 9(22) | Id., Quaest. in Genesim, Praef.~
1095 47 | example and teaching the qualities required in one who would
1096 6 | words; he gathered from all quarters whatever might prove of
1097 29 | and the Ninivites, of the Queen of Sheba and Solomon, of
1098 42 | studying lest it should quit me. But Paula learned it,
1099 38 | conversion of those "who had quitted the Church and put away
1100 26 | such notions as "implicit quotations" or "pseudo-historical narratives,"
1101 38 | When, again, Vigilantius quoted an Apocryphal book, Jerome
1102 1 | in Divine things, He also raised up in successive ages saintly
1103 67 | sweetness drew him so that he ran unfalteringly along the
1104 20 | words show that this is a rash and false deduction. For
1105 39 | marked out by the Fathers and ratified by the Church.~
1106 50 | unceasing toil in reading and re-reading it and weighing its meaning,
1107 50 | earnestly warn the prudent reader not to pay attention to
1108 28 | shun. This we shall more readily achieve if you, Venerable
1109 13 | be plain to anybody who realizes that there is nought in
1110 25 | with supreme authority by reason of its sure and momentous
1111 27 | too, St. Jerome: after rebuking the heretical framers of
1112 13 | the Fathers, and generally received. Thus when, at the instance
1113 | recent
1114 | recently
1115 39 | teaching office, either reck little of, or silently disregard,
1116 67 | His Mother. It is easy to recognize the hand of Jerome in the
1117 10 | controversy arose he had recourse to the Bible as a storehouse
1118 61 | preserved human society would recover from its disturbed state.
1119 41 | Psalter first, and find her recreation in its songs; let her learn
1120 67 | consecrated by the presence of our Redeemer and His Mother. It is easy
1121 57 | clergy would but strive to reduce principles like these to
1122 58 | Venerable Brethren, to refer to those "sweet fruits"
1123 17 | therefore, while no error is referable to the primary Author, it
1124 26 | Church, and take too ready a refuge in such notions as "implicit
1125 27 | Divine faith in it? They refuse to allow that the things
1126 51 | himself affords the best refutation of those who maintain that
1127 38 | the Bible, he was able to refute a false interpretation of
1128 48 | the heretics of his day he refuted them by singularly apt and
1129 46 | both of the secular and regular clergy, should come to Rome
1130 2 | teach myself. At Antioch I regularly attended the lectures of
1131 51 | historical meaning: "We are not rejecting the history, we are merely
1132 60 | his fellow-soldier, and rejoicing in the fact that they were
1133 22 | are pleased to term their relative truth, namely, what people
1134 2 | home, parents, sister, and relatives; he denied himself the more
1135 68 | in the possession of the relics of "the Greatest Doctor"
1136 56 | the text and compel the reluctant Scripture to yield the meaning
1137 58 | 58.~ It only remains for us, Venerable Brethren,
1138 45 | the gainsayers."[77] ~When reminding Paulinus of the lessons
1139 68 | enemies, win for us the removal of every element of discord,
1140 34 | his baptism, determined to remove whatever might prove a hindrance
1141 34 | With all obstacles thus removed he prepared his soul for "
1142 35 | he began them, and then rendering God due thanks when completed.~
1143 13 | opinion," Jerome briefly replied that he was not so utterly
1144 27 | the human trust we should repose in it as to overturn Divine
1145 68 | of "the Greatest Doctor" reposing in the cave where he dwelt
1146 54 | useful for teaching, for reproving, for correcting, for instructing
1147 52 | poverty-stricken."[94] Consequently he repudiates many mystical interpretations
1148 45 | the Church if it fails to "resist the gainsayer." Malachias
1149 2 | deter him from this stern resolve. He left home, parents,
1150 34 | to his ambitions in this respect. Like the men who found
1151 1 | debt we owe him. For the responsibility of our Apostolic office
1152 42 | your head nods let it be resting on the sacred page."[72]~
1153 32 | an amended and faithfully restored edition. We have no doubt
1154 19 | immunity from error - are to be restricted to that primary or religious
1155 68 | of the pleasant fruits resulting from reading and meditating
1156 15 | indeed, with the happiest results. Yet he would never accuse
1157 65 | Passion, the secret of His Resurrection."[125] Burning as he did
1158 5 | and when the Pope died he retired to Bethlehem to a monastery
1159 4 | of the Seraphim. He then returned to Rome on ecclesiastical
1160 39 | government of God, Who has revealed Himself, and of the Church
1161 39 | existence of any divine revelation or inspiration, but those,
1162 60 | throughout the world. Catholics revere you and point you out as
1163 15 | to accord such honor and reverence as firmly to believe that
1164 1 | Catholic Church acclaims and reveres as her "Greatest Doctor,"
1165 66 | immense labor - but what a reward! . . . What I have been
1166 2 | had he left the school of rhetoric than he ventured on a Commentary
1167 62 | like these is the Church richer than ever was the synagogue;
1168 45 | difference, then, between a righteous rusticity and a learned
1169 45 | rusticity and a learned righteousness! The former likened to the
1170 68 | still calls to us. His voice rings out, telling us of the super-excellence
1171 29 | Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead the
1172 66 | are dead with Christ, have risen with Him and have crucified
1173 34 | and since he realized what risks he had run in the past through
1174 63 | the Apocalypse about the River and the Tree of Life, says:~
1175 63 | the Bible was the royal road to the knowledge and love
1176 6 | once wrote to Domnio and Rogatian:~A man will understand the
1177 1(1) | Rom. 15:4. ~
1178 18 | our predecessor leave no room for doubt or dispute, it
1179 38(65) | Id., Contra Ruf., 3, 43.~
1180 38 | enemies as my own."[64] To Rufinus he writes: "There is one
1181 60 | belongings go - completely ruined by the heretics; yet through
1182 45 | preach His word. His words to Rusticus the monk apply to all clerics:~
1183 56 | Mysteries, learned in the Sacraments of God. To make the populace
1184 60 | not the priesthood, the sacrifices, the solemnities, nay, nearly
1185 50 | here, for they provide a safe path for us all to follow
1186 66 | lifelong toil for Christ's sake:~To become what the Martyrs,
1187 52 | promises of which the Prophets sang are regarded not merely
1188 68 | he lived in the East and sat at the feet of Gregory and
1189 15 | he felt that he had not satisfactorily settled the problem, he
1190 69 | children is that, being saturated with the Bible, they may
1191 25 | neither be Christians nor be saved.[46] ~
1192 66 | What I have been saying to you will sound hard to
1193 39 | origin; Those, too, who scoff at opinions held of old
1194 65 | Though some fancy me a scoundrel and guilty of every crime -
1195 29 | when disputing with the Scribes and Pharisees. Whether teaching
1196 57 | credit unless backed by Scriptural authority, that is, when
1197 68 | prayer calmed the raging sea can restore peace to the
1198 52 | due order, "lest in our search for spiritual riches we
1199 52 | time, he insists that in searching for this deeper meaning
1200 40 | first place, he insists, in season and out, on daily reading
1201 49 | Let a priest's speech be seasoned with the Bible,"[84] for "
1202 48 | 48.~ Secondly, it is from the Bible that
1203 46 | picked men, both of the secular and regular clergy, should
1204 57 | like that "least of all seeds" - the mustard seed - "no
1205 55 | in his Commentaries he "seeks no praise, but so to set
1206 44 | New Testament, as well as selected portions of the Old, in
1207 45 | ironically to Marcella about the "self-righteous lack of education" noticeable
1208 30 | whose duty it is to teach in seminaries, to follow closely in St.
1209 33 | wrote to Paulinus, formerly senator and even consul, and only
1210 22 | physics is concerned with "sensible appearances" and must consequently
1211 42 | sacred page."[72]~When he sent Eustochium the epitaph he
1212 66 | echo the words: "Who shall separate us from the charity of Christ?"[127] ~
1213 63 | since the Head can never be separated from the mystical body,
1214 69 | Given at St. Peter's, Rome, September 15, 1920, the seventh year
1215 24 | that historic truth and sequence were not observed in the
1216 4 | on Isaias' vision of the Seraphim. He then returned to Rome
1217 56 | men's ears by their ornate sermons, straightway begin to fancy
1218 32(51) | Conc. Trid., Sess. 4 Decr. de ed. et usu ss.
1219 55 | yet explains things, sets out the meaning, clears
1220 37 | that Rock. . . I beg you to settle this dispute. If you desire
1221 15 | he had not satisfactorily settled the problem, he would return
1222 37 | question to the Roman See for settlement, and wrote from the Syrian
1223 60(114)| Postumianus apud Sulp. Sev., Dial., 1, 9.~
1224 69 | September 15, 1920, the seventh year of our Pontificate. ~
1225 | several
1226 34 | vice, he adopted a most severe style of life. With all
1227 4 | him by students of both sexes.[16]~
1228 60 | described in the Old Testament shadow forth that same Church?
1229 68 | Christian standard of life, to shake themselves free from a pagan
1230 26 | were living now he would sharpen his keenest controversial
1231 29 | Ninivites, of the Queen of Sheba and Solomon, of Elias and
1232 60 | zeal so that we may gladly shed our blood for His faith.
1233 68 | may be "one fold and one shepherd."~
1234 34 | uncouth language made me shiver, and, since blind eyes do
1235 12 | us."[27] Once more, when showing Fabiola how to deal with
1236 46 | of the past ten years has shown, it has proved a great gain
1237 59 | Providence, to enter into His shrine and look into the mind of
1238 28 | Fathers were careful to shun. This we shall more readily
1239 59 | to knock at His door when shut, to receive our food from
1240 47 | study the said Law and thus shuts the door on any divine illumination
1241 7 | poured in upon him from all sides; besides all this, he was
1242 31 | doing not only the gains signalized above, but others too, which
1243 67 | which He lay - well, our silence does it more honor than
1244 7 | death and his voice was silent forever. So it was that,
1245 39 | either reck little of, or silently disregard, or at least obstinately
1246 9 | riches of Christ[22] and "silver wherewith to adorn God's
1247 32 | mercy grants us life, we sincerely hope to see an amended and
1248 48 | his day he refuted them by singularly apt and weighty arguments
1249 62 | Postumianus, who spent six months with him at Bethlehem,
1250 56 | garrulous brawler; rather be skilled in the Mysteries, learned
1251 40 | our bodies are not the slaves of sin, wisdom will come
1252 60 | they hate me too; unable to slay us with the sword, they
1253 42 | as much as you can. Let sleep find you holding your Bible,
1254 62 | Commentaries wherein he lets slip no opportunity for praising
1255 39 | contumacious folk now who sneer at the authority and government
1256 44 | hope, then, that similar Societies will be founded in your
1257 29 | and of Noe, of Lot and the Sodomites, and even of Lot's wife. (
1258 38 | For what is the good of soiling one's hands with a book
1259 34 | Father in heaven for our solace during this earthly pilgrimage,
1260 34 | for joy thereof went and sold all that he had and bought
1261 29 | Lk. 17:26-29, 32). How solemn His witness to the truth
1262 60 | priesthood, the sacrifices, the solemnities, nay, nearly everything
1263 7 | life and example in his solitude than if he had passed his
1264 | sometimes
1265 25 | instance, believe that God's Son was born of the Virgin Mary
1266 41 | find her recreation in its songs; let her learn from Solomon'
1267 18 | nay, what is a peculiar sorrow to us, even clerics and
1268 38 | them to return to their sorrowing Mother, the one source of
1269 65 | the world. . . What real sorrows have I to bear - I who fight
1270 8 | God as they wrote, in such sort that God is the principal
1271 65 | freed from earthly cares, sought Christ alone, by His spirit
1272 52 | regarded not merely as empty sounds or idle tropological expressions,
1273 35 | 35.~ But in a brief space Jerome became so enamored
1274 38 | he says, "I have never spared heretics, and have always
1275 7 | forever. So it was that, sparing himself neither labor nor
1276 57 | is, when men see that the speaker is trying to give his false
1277 56 | gape by spinning words and speaking like a whirlwind is only
1278 68 | desert; yet Jerome still speaks in his writings, which "
1279 56 | instead of being a degraded species of oratory, it must be a
1280 61 | this flood of vice than the spectacle afforded by the real beauty
1281 62 | example. Postumianus, who spent six months with him at Bethlehem,
1282 56 | make the populace gape by spinning words and speaking like
1283 61 | all her glory, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things,
1284 67 | powerfully drawn to those spots in Palestine which had been
1285 67 | constantly set before Christ's spouses for their imitation.[129]
1286 60 | found in such studies: it sprang from love of God and it
1287 68 | morality which seems to have sprung to life again in these days.
1288 2 | who found a treasure - to spurn "any emoluments the world
1289 32(51) | Sess. 4 Decr. de ed. et usu ss. Iibrorum; cf. Ench. Bibl.,
1290 68 | return to a truly Christian standard of life, to shake themselves
1291 1 | Foremost among these teachers stands St. Jerome. Him the Catholic
1292 34 | come to my senses and would start reading the Prophets. But
1293 61 | nothing could better avail to stem this flood of vice than
1294 68 | institutions - unless God steps in to prevent it. And surely
1295 2 | could deter him from this stern resolve. He left home, parents,
1296 7 | dictating till his hand stiffened in death and his voice was
1297 17 | power the Holy Spirit so stirred them and moved them to write,
1298 49 | Scriptures are a trumpet that stirs us with a mighty voice and
1299 62 | synagogue; with these living stones is the House of God built
1300 10 | recourse to the Bible as a storehouse of arguments, and he used
1301 29 | discrimination of sources to the stories of Jonas and the Ninivites,
1302 27 | attempting rather to fill up the story than to tell it truly,"[47]
1303 57 | contrary the Gospel teaching is straightforward, it is like that "least
1304 56 | by their ornate sermons, straightway begin to fancy that whatsoever
1305 58 | study. Notice, then, in what strain he writes to Paulinus, "
1306 24 | norm for history.[44] A strange distortion of St. Jerome'
1307 27 | course, being that the twin streams now flowing in the same
1308 1 | Church. For St. Jerome - "strenuous Catholic, learned in the
1309 68 | loved God's Church and so strenuously defended it against its
1310 2 | that Jerome was born in Stridonia, in a town "on the borders
1311 49 | believe,"[85] and "nothing so strikes home as an example taken
1312 56 | meant; they are content to string together texts made to fit
1313 38 | heretics, and have always striven to regard the Church's enemies
1314 31 | of the Bible he was ever striving to kindle in the hearts
1315 38 | not receive?"[63] With his strong insistence on adhering to
1316 4 | for nearly three years he studied Holy Scripture under St.
1317 2 | that he might gather from studious reading of the Bible the
1318 13 | that he was not so utterly stupid nor so grossly uneducated
1319 31 | faithful, and his words on this subject to the maiden Demetrias
1320 23 | apply to history and cognate subjects the same principles which
1321 37 | 37.~ He ever paid submissive homage to the Church, our
1322 37 | of the Holy Trinity, he submitted the question to the Roman
1323 37 | draw up a Symbol of faith subsequent to that of Nicaea, and let
1324 44 | instrumental in founding; its success has gladdened us, and we
1325 1 | things, He also raised up in successive ages saintly and learned
1326 61 | 61.~ And while he never suffered errors to creep in unnoticed,
1327 65 | bear about the image of His sufferings in himself. For him nought
1328 52 | feels that they are not sufficiently based on the literal meaning:~
1329 8 | composed at the inspiration, or suggestion, or even at the dictation
1330 60(114)| Postumianus apud Sulp. Sev., Dial., 1, 9.~
1331 25 | with St. Augustine, who sums up the general belief of
1332 64 | I gaze at that glorious sunlight, I care not to look at the
1333 68 | rings out, telling us of the super-excellence of Holy Scripture, of its
1334 10 | Jerome also insists on the supereminent authority of Scripture.
1335 30 | Jerome's teaching on the superexcellence and truth of Scripture is
1336 50 | not to pay attention to superstitious interpretations such as
1337 54 | the literal sense, and are supported by weighty authority";[97]
1338 25 | authority by reason of its sure and momentous teachings
1339 69 | they may arrive at the all surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ.
1340 59 | he says: "If aught could sustain and support a wise man in
1341 67 | familiarity with Christ, Whose sweetness drew him so that he ran
1342 60 | unable to slay us with the sword, they would that wishes
1343 37 | wish let them draw up a Symbol of faith subsequent to that
1344 6 | worked on copies from the synagogues and from the library formed
1345 3 | the desert of Chalcis, in Syria, to perfect himself in his
1346 37 | settlement, and wrote from the Syrian desert to Pope Damasus as
1347 49 | strikes home as an example taken from the Bible."[86]~
1348 29 | all parts of Scripture and takes His example from it; He
1349 33 | as St. Bernard found no taste in things which did not
1350 1 | Foremost among these teachers stands St. Jerome. Him the
1351 34 | memory of my past sins wrung tears from my soul, even then
1352 54 | more profound meaning in temperate fashion, and thus lift themselves
1353 61 | believing soul is Christ's true temple. Adorn it, deck it out,
1354 46 | the experience of the past ten years has shown, it has
1355 22 | what they are pleased to term their relative truth, namely,
1356 61 | blemish" (Eph. 5:27). How terribly he upbraids men who have
1357 60 | For in the Books of both Testaments Jerome saw the Church of
1358 35 | and then rendering God due thanks when completed.~
1359 4 | Scripture under St. Gregory the Theologian, then Bishop of that See
1360 36 | trusted to myself."[58] To Theophilus, Bishop of Alexandria, he
1361 | thereby
1362 | thereof
1363 29 | again from the dead the third day" (Lk. 24:45).~
1364 20 | of St. Augustine and St. Thomas, most wisely remarks - we
1365 6 | through Palestine. For he was thoroughly convinced of the truth of
1366 | Thou
1367 63 | stream flows out from the throne of God, and that is the
1368 54 | instructing in justice" (2 Tim. 3: 16).~They would, too,
1369 45 | lessons St. Paul gave to Timothy and Titus, and which he
1370 56 | they may make peoples' ears tingle by their flowery declamations![104]~
1371 67 | Would that Rome had what tiny Bethlehem possesses!"[131]~
1372 29 | books: "One jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the Law
1373 45 | Paul gave to Timothy and Titus, and which he himself had
1374 | together
1375 2 | places how assiduously he toiled:~An eager desire to learn
1376 34 | Scripture. For the latter has told us how, steeped as a youth
1377 67 | His cave to weep at His tomb with the sister (of Lazarus)
1378 61 | failed to lash with biting tongue any looseness in morals,
1379 57 | cheeks and produce a foaming torrent of words; may they win all
1380 68 | can restore peace to the tottering fabric of society. May Jerome,
1381 49 | weight nor any power to touch men's souls save in proportion
1382 33 | Scripture give the finishing touches to your work - I should
1383 | towards
1384 2 | born in Stridonia, in a town "on the borders of Dalmatia
1385 42 | speak it, too, without any trace of a Latin accent. We can
1386 16 | declared to be the ancient and traditional belief of the Church touching
1387 39 | It is your duty, then, to train as many really fit defenders
1388 41 | Laeta about her daughter's training, he says:~Every day she
1389 43 | see what profit and sweet tranquillity must result in well-disposed
1390 15 | was defective or that the translator had made a mistake, or again,
1391 41 | enriched her soul with these treasures she should commit to memory
1392 54 | abundant help from the infinite treasury of facts and ideas in the
1393 8 | life and labors we may now treat of his teaching on the divine
1394 32(51) | Conc. Trid., Sess. 4 Decr. de ed. et
1395 52 | as empty sounds or idle tropological expressions, but as established
1396 49 | for "the Scriptures are a trumpet that stirs us with a mighty
1397 27 | they are faithfully and truthfully written of Christ; so that
1398 57 | see that the speaker is trying to give his false doctrine
1399 59 | under foot the swelling tumults of this world.[111]~And
1400 34 | could not be childlike; turgid eloquence appealed mightily
1401 5 | thought I had done with tutors; but when I got back to
1402 68 | themselves free from a pagan type of morality which seems
1403 60 | you. And they hate me too; unable to slay us with the sword,
1404 43 | s words: "The hidden and uncertain things of Thy Wisdom Thou
1405 27 | did have come down to us unchanged and entire through witnesses
1406 34 | the Prophets. But their uncouth language made me shiver,
1407 45 | Nor is it only the "uncultured" whom Jerome condemns. Learned
1408 55 | well said that it may be understood in the sense in which it
1409 46 | and that this can only be undertaken along the lines laid down
1410 11 | In the same fashion he undertakes to defend against Jovinian,
1411 13 | utterly stupid nor so grossly uneducated as to imagine that the Lord'
1412 17 | writing and aptly express with unerring truth; else God would not
1413 34 | the Bible seemed to him unfit to be compared with Cicero.~
1414 68 | Christian nations which have unhappily fallen away from Mother
1415 13 | things that seem trifling and unimportant shine with the majesty of
1416 9 | with him unceasingly, in unique fashion, until his task
1417 7 | assailed Catholic doctrine and unity. Indeed, such was his love
1418 23 | does not lay this down as a universal law, but simply says that
1419 61 | suffered errors to creep in unnoticed, he likewise never failed
1420 15 | to use every endeavor to unravel the difficulty. If he felt
1421 12 | led away as a willing and unresisting captive in the bonds of
1422 | until
1423 47 | truth in the law," if he is unwilling to study the said Law and
1424 61 | 5:27). How terribly he upbraids men who have degraded the
1425 46 | may be able worthily to uphold the cause of Biblical study.<<<<<<<<<<"
1426 42 | labor and toil from my youth upwards, have only partly learned,
1427 69 | have here set before you. Urge upon all not merely to embrace
1428 61 | antidote to evil. Hence he urged that young people must be
1429 49 | How insistently Jerome urges on priests assiduous reading
1430 43 | guide, never desist from urging the faithful to read daily
1431 32(51) | Sess. 4 Decr. de ed. et usu ss. Iibrorum; cf. Ench.
1432 13 | replied that he was not so utterly stupid nor so grossly uneducated
1433 11 | complain that he has been vanquished rather by my eloquence than
1434 45 | of the firmament." What a vast difference, then, between
1435 17 | confirmed by the Council of the Vatican, Pope Leo continues:~Consequently
1436 57 | mustard seed - "no mere vegetable, but something that 'grows
1437 43 | unfalteringly beyond the veil into the Holy of Holies."[75]~
1438 28 | this insane freedom in ventilating opinions which the Fathers
1439 39 | itching desire for novelty - venture to interpret the sacred
1440 2 | school of rhetoric than he ventured on a Commentary on Abdias
1441 55 | obscurities, and is not mere verbiage."[102]~
1442 68 | this flood seems on the verge of sweeping away all human
1443 5 | out that even today men versed in such studies appreciate
1444 50 | text, to compare various versions, and, if he discovered any
1445 67 | Lord's Blood in his crystal vessel?"[128] Hence, too, his love
1446 4 | there were no heretics to vex him, Jerome betook himself
1447 66 | crucified the flesh with its vices and concupiscences - they
1448 67 | the Cross to the palm of victory. Hence, too, his ardent
1449 38(63) | Id., Adv. Vigil., 6.~
1450 38 | that."[62] When, again, Vigilantius quoted an Apocryphal book,
1451 61 | the priesthood! With what vigor he inveighs against the
1452 46(81) | Pius X, Vinea electa, May 7, 1909; cf.
1453 11 | Catholic doctrines of the virginal state, of perseverance,
1454 2(5) | S. Jerome, De viris ill., 135.~
1455 67 | greatest example of all the virtues he constantly set before
1456 14(37) | Id., Epist. ad Vitalem, 72, 2, 2.~
1457 57 | biting power, has nothing vivid or life-giving in it; it
1458 22 | Leo XIII's Encyclical - viz. that the sacred narrative
1459 46 | demands made by their divine vocation if they would be worthy
1460 33 | nothing more Latin than your volumes. . . If you could but add
1461 25 | appeared in the flesh and 'walked amongst men' - as Faustus
1462 61 | what profit to have your walls glittering with jewels while
1463 56 | to yield the meaning one wants![105]~
1464 18 | teaching on this point.~We warmly commend, of course, those
1465 50 | historical meaning:~I earnestly warn the prudent reader not to
1466 39 | You know - for Leo XIII warned us - "how insistently men
1467 60 | when the Pelagians laid waste the monastery at Bethlehem.
1468 45 | heart; pray unceasingly; watch over your senses lest idle
1469 7 | himself neither labor nor watching nor expense, he continued
1470 18 | methods, seek to discover new ways of explaining the difficulties
1471 26 | Bible as must inevitably weaken - if not destroy - its authority.~
1472 67 | Holy Eucharist: "Who is wealthier than he who carries the
1473 10 | used its testimony as a weapon for refuting his adversaries'
1474 31 | jewels which you should wear on your breast and in your
1475 65 | Damasus' death he, wounded and weary from evil men's assaults,
1476 67 | we can enter His cave to weep at His tomb with the sister (
1477 50 | reading and re-reading it and weighing its meaning, compelled him
1478 49 | will have neither value nor weight nor any power to touch men'
1479 43 | tranquillity must result in well-disposed souls from such devout reading
1480 13 | schools, whether of East or West, and that it was taught
1481 | whereby
1482 30 | Scripture is Christ's teaching. Wherefore we exhort all the Church'
1483 9 | of Christ[22] and "silver wherewith to adorn God's house."[23]~
1484 53 | foreshadowing the New Covenant, and whilst consequently explaining
1485 56 | words and speaking like a whirlwind is only worthy of empty-headed
1486 27 | expounding the very Gospels so whittle away the human trust we
1487 42 | holy woman for having so wholeheartedly devoted herself and her
1488 | why
1489 60 | unceasing conflict with wicked men brings on him their
1490 67 | carries the Lord's Body in his wicker basket, the Lord's Blood
1491 46 | priests, will obtain here a wider knowledge of the Bible than
1492 29 | Sodomites, and even of Lot's wife. (cf. Mt. 12:3, 39-42; Lk.
1493 12 | me, and be led away as a willing and unresisting captive
1494 1 | approaching we would not willingly let pass so favorable an
1495 56 | eloquence which simply aims at winning empty applause by an equally
1496 47(82) | de Ps. 147; cf. Ps. 1:2, Wis. 16:20. ~
1497 20 | Augustine and St. Thomas, most wisely remarks - we can never conclude
1498 34 | St. Jerome; even though withdrawn into the desert he still
1499 57 | which speedily dry up and wither away."[106]~On the contrary
1500 27 | unchanged and entire through witnesses who carefully committed
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