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| | [[Image:Stjerome.JPG|right|thumb|Saint Jerome]] | | [[Image:Stjerome.JPG|right|thumb|Saint Jerome]] |
| − | '''Saint Jerome''' or '''Jerome of Stridon''' (Latin: ''Hieronymus''), lived from (342 – 420 A.D.) and is one of the most famous [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] biblical scholars of antiquity. He is a [[Doctor of the Church]], one of only 33 people to be given that honor. | + | '''Saint Jerome''' or '''Jerome of Stridon''' (Latin: ''Hieronymus''), lived from (342 – 420 A.D.) and is the most famous [[Christian]] biblical scholar of antiquity. |
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| − | His writing of a single Latin translation of the [[Bible]] was enormously beneficial to the development of the early [[Christian]] church and to other writers, including [[St. Augustine]] who gradually made use of it.
| + | He "stands at the close of the old Græco-Roman civilisation: the last Roman poet of any repute, Claudian, and the last Roman historian, Ammianus Marcellinus, died before him. [[St. Augustine|Augustin]] survived him, but the other great Fathers, both in the East and in the West, had passed away before him."<ref>https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf206.iv.V.html</ref> |
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| − | Jerome was a prodigious writer and his works include 123 letters that survive to this day.<ref>https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf206.toc.html</ref> Fluent in many languages, Jerome was the first to translate the Bible in a "sense-for-sense" manner rather than "word-for-word". | + | He is a [[Doctor of the Church]], one of only 33 to be so honored [[Roman Catholicism|Catholicism]]. |
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| | + | His writing of a single Latin translation of the [[Bible]], directly from the [[Hebrew]] [[Old Testament]] and the [[Greek]] [[New Testament]], was enormously beneficial to the development of the early [[Christian]] church and to other writers, including [[St. Augustine]] who gradually made use of it. |
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| | + | Jerome was a prodigious writer, and his works include 123 letters that survive to this day.<ref>https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf206.toc.html</ref> Fluent in many languages, Jerome was the first to translate the Bible in a "sense-for-sense" manner rather than "word-for-word". |
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| | ==Life== | | ==Life== |
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| | ==Other scholarly writings== | | ==Other scholarly writings== |
| − | By no means can Jerome’s profound scholarship be limited to the ''Vulgate'', for Jerome wrote many [[New Testament]] commentaries, taught many students, and was at all times engaged in the questions of his day, writing his expert answers to inquiries from all sorts of fellow Christians, including the likes of the great [[St. Augustine]] himself. But, most importantly, Jerome was constantly at battle with the heretics of the day, exposing their errors by appeal to the [[Bible|Holy Scriptures]] and the faith of the Church. | + | By no means can Jerome’s profound scholarship be limited to the ''Vulgate'', for Jerome wrote many [[New Testament]] commentaries, taught many students, and was at all times engaged in the questions of his day, writing his expert answers to inquiries from all sorts of fellow Christians, including the likes of the great [[St. Augustine]] himself. But, most importantly, Jerome was constantly at battle with the heretics of the day, exposing their errors by appealing to the [[Bible|Holy Scriptures]] and the faith of the Church. |
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| − | Jerome constantly upheld the divine nature of the Scriptures, affirming that, ultimately, God is the author of the [[Bible]]. It was his reverence for the Word, and for the Lord, that lead Jerome in all his pursuits. Neither did Jerome doubt that the human authors were chosen for a reason, and he regularly set about investigating their language and historical setting to better understand the agency and message of God. Jerome considered the Bible free from all error or deception; thus he wrote, “The Lord's words are true; for Him to say it, means that it is.”<ref>Jerome, ''In Mich''., 4:1.</ref> | + | Jerome constantly upheld the divine nature of the Scriptures, affirming that, ultimately, God is the author of the [[Bible]]. It was his reverence for the Word, and for the Lord, that led Jerome in all his pursuits. Neither did Jerome doubt that the human authors were chosen for a reason, and he regularly set about investigating their language and historical setting to better understand the agency and message of God. Jerome considered the Bible free from all error or deception; thus he wrote, “The Lord's words are true; for Him to say it, means that it is.”<ref>Jerome, ''In Mich''., 4:1.</ref> |
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| | ==Later commendations== | | ==Later commendations== |