Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Peter 4:10

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 68, footnote 19 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Pammachius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1071 (In-Text, Margin)

... gift to be but a small thing, he has added: ‘For if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the sight of Christ.’ The gifts of Christ are different. Hence Joseph as a type of Him had a coat of many colors. So in the forty-fourth psalm we read of the Church: ‘Upon thy right hand did stand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colors.’ The apostle Peter, too, speaks (of husbands and wives) ‘as being heirs together of the manifold grace of God.’[1 Peter 4:10] In Greek the expression is still more striking, the word used being ποικίλη, that is, ‘many-colored.’”