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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 this expertise to bear on his understanding of the Old Testament. Beginning in 379,...

Wherefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a stone wall, and she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers and shall not overtake them, and she shall seek them and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go and return to my first husband, because it was well with me then, rather than now. Septuagint: “Because of this, behold, I will hedge up her way with thistles and obstruct her ways, and she shall not find her path. And she
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