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Jerome (c. 347–419), one of the West’s four doctors of the church, was recognized early on as one of the church’s foremost translators, commentators and advocates of Christian asceticism. Skilled in Hebrew and Greek in addition to his native Latin, he was thoroughly familiar with Jewish traditions and brought them to bear on his understanding of the Old Testament. In 405 Jerome completed his...

on the site of the haughty things that were destroyed and plucked up. In this way the saying of the apostle may be fulfilled: “You are God’s building, God’s field.”19 Many interpret this passage as relating to the person of Christ. For “Jeremiah” is translated “the exalted one of the Lord,”20 who destroyed the kingdoms of the devil that were shown on the top of the mountain21 and who did away with the adversarial powers, canceling the bond of errors on the cross.22 Beyond the truth of the historia,
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