The Apology of Rufinus. Addressed to Apronianus,…
13. In the Preface to the Apology of Pamphilus, after a few other remarks, I said:
15. But let me add what comes after. My Preface continued as follows:
14. Take, again, the Preface to the Song of Songs:
16. Again, in the Preface to his book on the meaning of Hebrew names, he says, some way down:
17. Once more, in his letter to Marcella he says:
18. Lastly, take the following from another letter to Marcella:
22. In the Preface to his book on Hebrew Questions, after many other remarks, he says:
17. Once more, in his letter to Marcella he says:152 Letter xliii, 1.
“Ambrose, who supplied the paper, the money and the secretaries by the aid of which our Adamantius153 Indomitable or made of adamant. and Chalcenterus154 Indefatigable; lit. Brazen-bowelled. completed his innumerable books, in a certain letter written to the same person from Athens, declares that he never had a meal, when Origen was present, without something being read, and that he never went to bed without having some brother read aloud from the holy Scriptures. This he said he continued day and night, so that prayer waited upon reading and reading upon prayer.”