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Jerome, Letter to Innocent
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Letter II. To Theodosius and the Rest of the Anchorites.
Letter III. To Rufinus the Monk.
Letter VI. To Julian, a Deacon of Antioch.
Letter VII. To Chromatius, Jovinus, and Eusebius.
Letter VIII. To Niceas, Sub-Deacon of Aquileia.
Letter IX. To Chrysogonus, a Monk of Aquileia.
Letter X. To Paul, an Old Man of Concordia.
Letter XI. To the Virgins of Æmona.
Letter XIII. To Castorina, His Maternal Aunt.
Letter XIV. To Heliodorus, Monk.
Letter XVII. To the Presbyter Marcus.
Letter XVIII. To Pope Damasus.
Letter XIX. From Pope Damasus.
Letter XXXV. From Pope Damasus.
Letter XXXVI. To Pope Damasus.
Letter XLVI. Paula and Eustochium to Marcella.
Letter LI. From Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, in Cyprus, to John, Bishop of Jerusalem.
Letter LVII. To Pammachius on the Best Method of Translating.
Letter LXII. To Tranquillinus.
Letter LXX. To Magnus an Orator of Rome.
Letter LXXIV. To Rufinus of Rome.
Letter LXXX. From Rufinus to Macarius.
Letter LXXXII. To Theophilus Bishop of Alexandria.
Letter LXXXIII. From Pammachius and Oceanus.
Letter LXXXIV. To Pammachius and Oceanus.
Letter LXXXVII. From Theophilus to Jerome.
Letter LXXXVIII. To Theophilus.
Letter LXXXIX. From Theophilus to Jerome.
Letter XC. From Theophilus to Epiphanius.
Letter XCI. From Epiphanius to Jerome.
Letter XCII. The Synodical Letter of Theophilus to the Bishops of Palestine and of Cyprus.
Letter XCIII. From the Bishops of Palestine to Theophilus.
Letter XCIV. From Dionysius to Theophilus.
Letter XCV. From Pope Anastasius to Simplicianus.
Letter XCVII. To Pammachius and Marcella.
Letter XCVIII. From Theophilus.
Letter CVI. To Sunnias and Fretela.
Letter CXI. From Augustine to Præsidius.
Letter CXIII. From Theophilus to Jerome.
Letter CXVII. To a Mother and Daughter Living in Gaul.
Letter CXIX. To Minervius and Alexander.
Letter CXXVI. To Marcellinus and Anapsychia.
Letter CXXVIII. To Gaudentius.
Letter CXXXII. From Augustine.
Letter CXXXV. From Pope Innocent to Aurelius.
Letter CXXXVI. From Pope Innocent to Jerome.
Letter CXXXVII. From Pope Innocent to John, Bishop of Jerusalem.
Letter CXL. To Cyprian the Presbyter.
Letter CXLIII. To Alypius and Augustine.
Letter LIX. To Marcella.
An answer to five questions put to Jerome by Marcella in a letter not preserved. The questions are as follows.
(1) What are the things which eye hath not seen nor ear heard (1 Cor. ii. 9)? Jerome answers that they are spiritual things which as such can only be spiritually discerned.
(2) Is it not a mistake to identify the sheep and the goats of Christ’s parable (Matt. xxv. 31 sqq.) with Christians and heathens? Are they not rather the good and the bad? For an answer to this question Jerome refers Marcella to his treatise against Jovinian (II. §§18–23).
(3) Paul says that some shall be “alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord;” and that they shall be “caught up to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thess. iv. 15, 17). Are we to suppose this assumption to be corporeal and that those assumed will escape death? Yes, Jerome answers, but their bodies will be glorified.
(4) How is John xx. 17, “touch me not,” to be reconciled with Matt. xxviii. 9, “they came and held him by the feet”? In the one case, Jerome replies, Mary Magdalen failed to recognize the divinity of Jesus; in the other the women recognized it. Accordingly they were admitted to a privilege which was denied to her.
(5) Was the risen Christ before His ascension present only with the disciples, or was He in heaven and elsewhere as well? The latter according to Jerome is the true doctrine. “The Divine Nature,” he writes, “exists everywhere in its entirety. Christ, therefore, was at one and the same time with the apostles and with the angels; in the Father and in the uttermost parts of the sea. So afterwards he was with Thomas in India, with Peter at Rome, with Paul in Illyricum, with Titus in Crete, with Andrew in Achaia.” The date of the letter is a.d. 395 or a.d. 396.