Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 172, footnote 7 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Theophilus Bishop of Alexandria. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2519 (In-Text, Margin)

... said nothing of any dogmatic difference between himself and pope Epiphanius. What then can have “forced” him—I use his own word—publicly to argue a point which no one had yet raised? One so full of wisdom as you knows well the danger of such discussions and that silence is in such cases the safest course; except, indeed, on some occasion which renders it imperative to deal with great matters. What ability and eloquence it must have needed to compress into a single sermon—as he boasts to have done[Jeremiah 2] —all the topics which the most learned writers have treated in detail in voluminous treatises! But this is nothing to me: it is for the hearers of the sermon to notice and for the writer of the letter to realize. But as for me he ought of his own ...