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Jerome: source notes

Jerome: source notes

Works: Against the Pelagians (Dialogue). Edition/translation: NPNF² vol. 6, as on New Advent.

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S1: Dial. adv. Pelag. I, editor’s summary of chs. 1–3

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/30111.htm
  • Text: The NPNF editor summarizes the opening: grace is needed “in every act”. The direct quotation in Context is Jerome’s own; it bears on grace, not on justification as such.
  • Context: Jerome’s own prologue: ’let us always believe that the eagerness of our wills is governed by the help of God’ (verified, New Advent 30111).
  • Bears on: Q2
  • Status: verified (English)

Topic: relics

See relics reasoning.

REL S1: Against Vigilantius 5

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3010.htm
  • Text: “Madman, who in the world ever adored the martyrs? Who ever thought man was God?” Jerome defends the honouring of “the relics of the martyrs” and the translation of relics of Andrew, Luke and Timothy to Constantinople.
  • Context: Written c. 406 against Vigilantius, who called relic-veneration “all but a heathen ceremony”. This shows a contemporary objection inside the church.
  • Bears on: R2, R4
  • Status: verified (English)

Doctrine S18

See S18 reasoning.

S18 S1: Against Helvidius 14

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3007.htm (public-domain English translation)
  • Text: “In Holy Scripture there are four kinds of brethren — by nature, race, kindred, love.”
  • Context: The Lord’s brothers are kinsmen, not Mary’s sons.
  • Bears on: S18.2
  • Status: verified (English)

S18 S2: Against Helvidius 19

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3007.htm (public-domain English translation)
  • Text: “You say that Mary did not continue a virgin: I claim still more, that Joseph himself on account of Mary was a virgin, so that from a virgin wedlock a virgin son was born.”
  • Context:
  • Bears on: S18.2
  • Status: verified (English)

Doctrine S09

See S09 reasoning.

S09 S1: Letter 146.1

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001146.htm (public-domain English translation)
  • Text: “When subsequently one presbyter was chosen to preside over the rest, this was done to remedy schism and to prevent each individual from rending the church of Christ by drawing it to himself.”
  • Context: Presbyters and bishops originally the same.
  • Bears on: S09.1
  • Status: verified (English)