Jerome – Letter 56
| Document: | Letter 56 (Augustine) |
| Reference: | Stegmuller 3382 |
| Incipit: | Numquam {aeque} quisquam facie (al. quiquam tam facile, al. me tam facile quisquam) |
| Addressee: | Jerome |
| Date: | c. 394 |
| Earliest ms.: | Paris, France: Bibliotheque Nationale, Lat. 13047, f. 64v-68v 8th century. (Lambert, I: p. 657) |
| Latin Text: | CSEL 54, pp. 496-503 |
| English Translation: | Cunningham, p. 251, from the NPNF series. |
| Notes: | Augustine’s first letter to Jerome: through a series of accidents it was not delivered until nine years after it had been written. In it Augustine comments on Jerome’s new Latin version of the O.T. and advises him in his future labors to adhere more closely to the text of the LXX. He also discusses Jerome’s account (in his commentary on the epistle to the Galatians) of the quarrel between Paul and Peter at Antioch. This according to Jerome was not a real misunderstanding but only one artificially ‘got up’ to put clearly before the Church the mischief of Christians conforming to the now obsolete Mosaic Law. Augustine strongly controverts this view and maintains that it is fatal to the veracity and authority claimed for scripture. (Fremantle, p. 112) |
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