Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 18:7

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 138, footnote 21 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Pammachius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1979 (In-Text, Margin)

11. I hear that you have erected a hospice for strangers at Portus and that you have planted a twig from the tree of Abraham[Genesis 18:1-8] upon the Ausonian shore. Like Æneas you are tracing the outlines of a new encampment; only that, whereas he, when he reached the waters of the Tiber, under pressure of want had to eat the square flat cakes which formed the tables spoken of by the oracle, you are able to build a house of bread to rival this little village of Bethlehem wherein I am staying; and here after their long privations you propose to satisfy travellers with ...