Commentary on Jeremiah (Biblia.com)

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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...

heads held high, when not only their hearts but also their hands are stained with robbery, murder, adultery, perjury, sacrilege and the worship of gods that they have not known? This happens spiritually in the church whenever people reflect on their present good fortune and fail to reckon with their sins, supposing that these sins have escaped God’s notice because punishment did not come right away. Moreover, they burst forth in such great madness that they think themselves “delivered” simply because

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