Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets, Volume 1 (Biblia.com)

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Jerome (c. 347–419/20), 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. Beginning in 379, Jerome used...

carefully, lest it immediately strike something. For indeed, as in the tale of the poet: “Scylla blocks the right side, implacable Charybdis the left”;137 if we flee the rocks, we will run out onto the deep; if we avoid the twisting whirlpools, we will be dashed on the rocks. The Lord is my witness, that as I explain everything according to the Hebrews, I am not speaking out of my own understanding,138 as is charged against the false prophets,139 but I follow the explanation of the Hebrews, from

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