Jerome – Letter 74
| Document: | Letter 74 |
| Reference: | Stegmuller 3321 |
| Incipit: | Multum in utramque |
| Addressee: | Rufinus |
| Date: | 398 (Kelly p. 212) |
| Earliest ms.: | Paris, France: Bibliotheque Nationale, Nouv. acq. lat. 446, f. 18-19v. 6th century. (Lambert, I: p. 762) |
| Latin Text: | CSEL 55, pp. 23-29 |
| Notes: | Rufinus, a Roman Presbyter (to be carefully distinguished from Rufinus of Aquileia and Rufinus the Syrian), had written to Jerome for an explanation of the judgment of Solomon (1 Kings 3:16-20). This Jerome gives at length, treating the narrative as a parable and making the false and true mothers types of the Synagogue and the Church. (Fremantle, p. 154) |
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