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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,...

by the word of God, the Lord declares that he is averse to those things which are being set up again by the vices. And after everything pertaining to the borders of the enemy have been destroyed, we can then see the eyes of Israel and all the saints say: the Lord will be magnified in the borders of those who see God with the mind. Furthermore, the love and hatred of God arises either out of the foreknowledge of the future or on the basis of works; in other respects we know that God loves all things,
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