Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 19:21

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 417, footnote 2 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 4945 (In-Text, Margin)

... of Christ, and to deny that religious reverence is to be paid to the tombs of the martyrs. Vigils, he says, are to be condemned; Alleluia must never be sung except at Easter; continence is a heresy; chastity a hot-bed of lust. And as Euphorbus is said to have been born again in the person of Pythagoras, so in this fellow the corrupt mind of Jovinianus has arisen; so that in him, no less than in his predecessor, we are bound to meet the snares of the devil. The words may be justly applied to him:[Isaiah 19:21] “Seed of evil-doers, prepare thy children for the slaughter because of the sins of thy father.” Jovinianus, condemned by the authority of the Church of Rome, amidst pheasants and swine’s flesh, breathed out, or rather belched out his spirit. And now ...