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St. Jerome (347–420) has been considered the pre-eminent scriptural commentator among the Latin Church Fathers. His Commentary on Matthew, written in 398 and profoundly influential in the West, appears here for the first time in English translation. Jerome covers the entire text of Matthew’s gospel by means of brief explanatory comments that clarify the text literally and historically. Although...

from the things that have been said previously.190 For before this the following is written: “Many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first,”191 where the Lord is describing not the timing but their faith. And he says that the householder went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He established the wage of a denarius for the work. Then, when he went out at around the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle, and for these he had promised not
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