²²⁴⁹ A writer of the sub-apostolic age who had been a disciple of the apostle John. He was bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia.

²²⁵⁰ Another sub-apostolic writer who was also a disciple of John. He became bishop of Smyrna and underwent martyrdom at the age of 86.

²²⁵¹ See note on Letter XXXIII.

²²⁵² The blind theologian of Alexandria by whose teaching Jerome had himself profited. See Letter XXXIV.

²²⁵³ The old testament as translated direct from the Hebrew.

²²⁵⁴ The first eight books.

²²⁵⁵ This work Jerome accomplished between the years 383 and 390 a.d. Only the Psalter and Job are extant.

²²⁵⁶ This task he undertook at the request of pope Damasus in 383 a.d. See Letter XXVII.

²²⁵⁷ i.e. on Saturday.

²²⁵⁸ At this time the communion was celebrated daily at Constantinople, in Africa, and in Spain. At Rome it was celebrated on every day of the week except Saturday (the Sabbath). See Socrates, H.E. v. 22.

²²⁵⁹ A leading Roman churchman, bishop of Portus, in the early part of the third century, the rival and enemy of pope Callistus and author of many theological treatises, one of which-the Refutation of all Heresies-has recently become famous.

²²⁶⁰ Compare the similar advice given by Gregory the Great to Augustine of Canterbury (Bede, H. E. 1. 27).

²²⁶¹ Nothing in the book of Acts bears out this statement. Fasting at the times mentioned was forbidden in Jerome's day.

²²⁶² Daily if you will and on fast days as well as on feast days.

²²⁶³ Ps. xxxiv. 8.

²²⁶⁴ Ps. xlv. 1, Vulg.

²²⁶⁵ i.e. the period of fifty days between Easterday and Whitsunday. See Letter XLI.

²²⁶⁶ i.e. his wife Theodora.

²²⁶⁷ Jer. x. 23.

²²⁶⁸ Exod. iii. 3.

²²⁶⁹ Hos. xiii. 15, Vulg. Quia ipse inter fratres dividet. AV. follows the Hebrew.

²²⁷⁰ Hos. xiii. 14, Hos. xiii. 15.

²²⁷¹ Isa. xi. 1, Vulg.

²²⁷² Cant. ii. 1.

²²⁷³ Ps. lxiii. 1, 2, Vulg.

²²⁷⁴ 1 Thess. iv. 13.

²²⁷⁵ Luke ii. 14, Vulg.

²²⁷⁶ Rom. i. 7.

²²⁷⁷ Ps. lxxvi. 2. "Salem" (A.V.), the Hebrew word for peace.

²²⁷⁸ See Jerome's Book of Hebrew Names Cf. also Letter CVIII.

²²⁷⁹ Matt. xviii. 10.

²²⁸⁰ Wisd. iv. 11-14.

²²⁸¹ Matt. xii. 36.

²²⁸² Gal. iii. 28.

²²⁸³ 1 Cor. xv. 53.

²²⁸⁴ Matt. xxii. 30.

²²⁸⁵ Origenism.

²²⁸⁶ Probably as revived by Priscillian, who was put to death 385. See Jerome On Illustrious Men, c. 121.

²²⁸⁷ These terms, the meanings of which are very uncertain, are either the names of aeons or magical formulae used by the Marcosians in the celebration of their mysteries.

²²⁸⁸ A gnostic of the school of Valentinus, who taught in the middle of the second century. Jerome is in error when he describes him as a disciple of Basilides.

²²⁸⁹ 2 Tim. iii. 6, 2 Tim. iii. 7.

²²⁹⁰ An error for `two hundred years ago.0'

²²⁹¹ Is. xxxiii. 15. Jerome's allusion may be to the execution of Priscillian in 385. Lucinius may have shared the views of Ambrose and Martin against the shedding of blood.

²²⁹² Ps. cxii. 9.

²²⁹³ Luke ix. 48.

²²⁹⁴ Matt. x. 40.

²²⁹⁵ Isa. xlix. 2.

²²⁹⁶ Ps. cxxi. 4.

²²⁹⁷ Dan. iv. 13. Lit. May Hir, that is the watcher, Hir being the Hebrew word.

²²⁹⁸ Cant. v. 2.

²²⁹⁹ Ps. xxv. 7.

²³⁰⁰ 1 Tim. iii. 6. AV. adapted.

²³⁰¹ James iv. 6.

²³⁰² Cf. Ps. lxxv. 5.

²³⁰³ Matt. xi. 29.

²³⁰⁴ Ps. cxxxii. 1, Vulg. AV. has `afflictions.0'

²³⁰⁵ Prov. xviii. 12.

²³⁰⁶ Eccl. iv. 9-12. The last clause is Jerome's own.

²³⁰⁷ Cant. iv. 9.

²³⁰⁸ Ex. iii. 3.

²³⁰⁹ Cicero ascribes this piece of fanaticism to Democritus and Metrodorus.

²³¹⁰ Jer. ix. 21. LXX.

²³¹¹ Matt. v. 28.

²³¹² Joh. iv. 35.

²³¹³ The legendary oppressor of the Jews, whose fate is described in the Book of Judith.

²³¹⁴ Hagg. i. 6.

²³¹⁵ Matt. vi. 20.

²³¹⁶ Nu. xxxiii. 47, Nu. xxxiii. 48.

²³¹⁷ Josh. v. 2, Josh. v. 9.

²³¹⁸ Josh. vi. 20.

²³¹⁹ Josh. x. 1, Josh. x. 26.

²³²⁰ Josh. viii. 10, Josh. xi. 10.