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St. Jerome’s reputation rests primarily on his achievements as a translator and as a scriptural exegete. The important service that he rendered to the Church in his doctrinal works is often overlooked or minimized by those who look for originality and independence of thought. St. Jerome was not a theologian in the strict sense of the word. He was no original thinker, and he never abandoned...

disciple.’158 ‘He who does not carry his cross and follow me, cannot be my disciple.’159 Shall I be very bold at this point and exclaim: ‘Man can avoid all sins if he wants to, for His commandments are easy?’ The Pharisees deserve to hear it said to them: ‘You are they who call yourselves just before men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is exalted in the sight of men is abominable before God.’160 ‘It is impossible,’ He says, ‘that scandals should not come.’161 I suppose that scandal is
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