Jerome – Letter 61
| Document: | Letter 61 |
| Incipit: | Iustum quidem fuerat |
| Addressee: | Vigilantius Presbyter |
| Date: | c. 396 (Kelly p. 206) |
| Earliest ms.: | Verona, Italy: Biblioteca Capitolare, XVII (15), f. 242v-247v. 6th century. (Lambert, I: p. 692) |
| Latin Text: | CSEL 54, pp. 575-582 |
| English Translation: | Fremantle, pp. 131-133 |
| Notes: | Vigilantius on his return to the West after his visit to Jerusalem (whither he had gone as the bearer of letters from Paulinus of Nola – see Letter 63) had openly accused Jerome of a leaning to the heresy of Origen. Jerome now writes to him in the most severe tone repudiating the charge of Origenism and fastening upon his opponent those of ignorance and blasphemy. He singles out for especial reprobation Vigilantius’s explanation of ‘the stone cut out without hands’ in Daniel and urges him to repent of his sins in which case he will have as much chance of forgiveness as the devil has according to Origen! -Fremantle |
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