Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Psalms 68:23
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 3, page 483, footnote 2 (Image)
Theodoret, Jerome and Gennadius, Rufinus and Jerome
Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus. (HTML)
Jerome's Apology for Himself Against the Books of Rufinus. (HTML)
Book I (HTML)
It is hard that an old friend with whom I had been reconciled should attack me in a book secretly circulated among his disciples. (HTML)
I have learned not only from your letter but from those of many others that cavils are raised against me in the school of Tyrannus, “by the tongue of my dogs from the enemies by himself”[Psalms 68:23] because I have translated the books Περὶ ᾽Αρχῶν into Latin. What unprecedented shamelessness is this! They accuse the physician for detecting the poison: and this in order to protect their vendor of drugs, not in obtaining the reward of innocence but in his partnership with the criminal; as if the number of the offenders diminished the crime, or as if the accusation ...