Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Esther 9:31

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 101, footnote 20 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

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CCEL Footnote 1512 (In-Text, Margin)

... Horace, our Catullus, and our Serenus all in one, sings of Christ to his lyre; and on a psaltery with ten strings calls him from the lower world to rise again. Solomon, a lover of peace and of the Lord, corrects morals, teaches nature, unites Christ and the church, and sings a sweet marriage song to celebrate that holy bridal. Esther, a type of the church, frees her people from danger and, after having slain Haman whose name means iniquity, hands down to posterity a memorable day and a great feast.[Esther 9:20-32] The book of things omitted or epitome of the old dispensation is of such importance and value that without it any one who should claim to himself a knowledge of the scriptures would make himself a laughing stock in his own eyes. Every name used in ...