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Letter 37

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

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To Marcella

Marcella had asked Jerome to lend her a copy of a commentary by Rhetitius, bishop of Augustodunum (Autun), on the Song of Songs. He now refuses to do so on the ground that the work abounds with errors, of which the two following are samples: (1) Rhetitius identifies Tharshish with Tarsus, and (2) he supposes that Uphaz (in the phrase gold of Uphaz) is the same as Cephas. Written at Rome A.D. 384.

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.