Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 34:16

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 417, footnote 1 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 4944 (In-Text, Margin)

1. The world has given birth to many monsters; in[Isaiah 34:14-16] Isaiah we read of centaurs and sirens, screech-owls and pelicans. Job, in mystic language, describes Leviathan and Behemoth; Cerberus and the birds of Stymphalus, the Erymanthian boar and the Nemean lion, the Chimæra and the many-headed Hydra, are told of in poetic fables. Virgil describes Cacus. Spain has produced Geryon, with his three bodies. Gaul alone has had no monsters, but has ever been rich in men of courage and great eloquence. All at once Vigilantius, or, ...