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Letter 74

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

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To Rufinus of Rome

Rufinus, a Roman Presbyter (to be carefully distinguished from Rufinus of Aquileia and Rufinus the Syrian), had written to Jerome for an explanation of the judgment of Solomon 1 Kings 3:16-28. This Jerome gives at length, treating the narrative as a parable and making the false and true mothers types of the Synagogue and the Church. The date of the letter is 398 A.D.

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.