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Letter 20

Jerome · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series · Vol. 6

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To Pope Damasus

Jerome’s reply to the foregoing. Exposing the error of Hilary of Poitiers, who supposed the expression to signify redemption of the house of David, he goes on to show that in the gospels it is a quotation from Psa. cxviii. 25 and that its true meaning is save now (so A.V.). Let us, he writes, leave the streamlets of conjecture and return to the fountain-head. It is from the Hebrew writings that the truth is to be drawn. Written at Rome A.D. 383.

Edition Record

Translator
Translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley.
Series
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series
Volume
Vol. 6.
Editor
Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
Publisher
Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co.,
Year
1893.