Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.6: St. Jerome: Letters and Select Works (Catholic Edition)
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Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume VI: St. Jerome: Letters and Select Works. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era. The Catholic edition of Early Church Fathers does not include the introductions, prolegomenae, and various interpretive comments made by the protestant editors of the Edinburgh edition. However, it retains all of the footnotes found in the printed editions. Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series VI Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome The Life of Paulus the First Hermit The Life of S. Hilarion The Life of Malchus, the Captive Monk The Dialogue against the Luciferians The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary against Helvidius Against Jovinianus Against Vigilantius To Pammachius against John of Jerusalem Against the Pelagians Prefaces to Jerome’s Early Works Prefaces to the Vulgate Version of the New Testament Prefaces to the Books of the Vulgate Version of the Old Testament Prefaces to Translations from the Septuagint and Chaldee Prefaces to the Commentaries
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“Take food in moderation, and never overload your stomach. For many women, while temperate as regards wine, are intemperate in the use of food. When you rise at night to pray, let your breath be that of an empty and not that of an overfull stomach. Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page.” (Page 28)
“Evagrius4 of Ibera in Pontus who sends letters to virgins and monks and among others to her whose name bears witness to the blackness of her perfidy,5 has published a book of maxims on apathy, or, as we should say, impassivity or imperturbability; a state in which the mind ceases to be agitated and—to speak simply—becomes either a stone or a God. His work is widely read, in the East in Greek and in the West in a Latin translation made by his disciple Rufinus.6 He has also written a book which professes to be about monks and includes in it many not monks at all whom he declares to have been Origenists, and who have certainly been condemned by the bishops.” (Page 274)
“The things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit.’ Supposing there were nothing else, and that no greater reward followed virginity, this would be motive enough for her choice, to think of the things of the Lord. But he immediately points out the contents of her thought—that she may be holy both in body and spirit. For there are virgins in the flesh, not in the spirit, whose body is intact, their soul corrupt. But that virgin is a sacrifice to Christ, whose mind has not been defiled by thought, nor her flesh by lust.” (Page 357)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.6: St. Jerome: Letters and Select Works (Catholic Edition)
- Authors: Philip Schaff, Henry Wace, Jerome
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Catholic Edition)
- Volume: 6
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1893
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.120
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:03:46Z