Quotes about Jerome

Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.

For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome.

Therefore Jerome — whether it is his own judgment or the opinion of others — says that Moses did not want to make mention of Simeon because the traitor Judas was to be born from him;28 and even up to this time the tribe of Simeon is the most contemptible among these dregs of the Jews.

But Simeon is the most abject tribe of all, for he is cursed by his father Jacob and is passed over in silence by Moses. Jerome, as I have stated, is of the opinion that no mention is made of Simeon because Judas Iscariot was to be born from that tribe.

The battering-ram of natural affection which so often shatters faith must recoil powerless from the wall of the Gospel.

Reply to Objection 1: Jerome is speaking according to the teaching of the Greek Fathers; all of whom hold the creation of the angels to have taken place previously to that of the corporeal world.

I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.

Heliodorus, tells me that there are many parts of the Scriptures which you seek and cannot find. But even if you have them all, affection is sure to assert its rights and to seek for itself more than it already has.

glory follows virtue as its shadow; and deserting those who seek it, it seeks those who despise it.

Envy always follows in the track of virtue: as Horace says, it is ever the mountain top that is smitten by the lightning.

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