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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'', b. 342 in Stridon, in the Roman province of Dalmatia,<ref>Its present-day location is unknown, which could be in [[Croatia]].</ref> d. September 30, 420 A.D.) and is the most famous [[Christian]] biblical scholar of antiquity. He translated the immensely influential [[Latin Vulgate]] from 391 to 405 A.D. His ordering of the [[Gospels]], which was not the Western ordering of Matthew-John-Mark-Luke but instead conformed to the Eastern church and some early codices, made Matthew-Mark-Luke-John the universal standard today.
'''Saint Jerome''' or '''Jerome of Stridon''' (Latin: ''Hieronymus'', b. 342 in Stridon, in the Roman province of Dalmatia,<ref>Its present-day location is unknown, which could be in [[Croatia]].</ref> d. September 30, 420 A.D.) and is the most famous [[Christian]] biblical scholar of antiquity. He translated the immensely influential [[Latin Vulgate]] from 391 to 405 A.D. His ordering of the [[Gospels]], which was not the Western ordering of Matthew-John-Luke-Mark<ref>This ordering is found in Papyrus P45 and the Codex Bezae.</ref> but instead conformed to the Eastern church and some early codices, made Matthew-Mark-Luke-John the universal standard today.
He "stands at the close of the old Græco-Roman civilisation: the last Roman poet of any repute, Claudian, and the last Roman [[History|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>
He "stands at the close of the old Græco-Roman civilisation: the last Roman poet of any repute, Claudian, and the last Roman [[History|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>