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The Homilies of Saint Jerome, Volume 1 (1–59 on the Psalms) is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume contains 59 homilies preached by St. Jerome on selected Psalms. Jerome’s knowledge of the “three Sacred Languages,” Latin, Greek and Hebrew, his acquaintance with the exegetical methods of Antioch and Alexandria, his use of Origen’s Hexapla and his work on the Psalter are impressive credentials for the quality of these works. As far as can be determined now these homilies were...

of this verse that I have felt compelled to make these remarks. A mighty evil is the tongue. ‘O Lord, deliver me from lying lip, from treacherous tongue’—not from another’s tongue, but from my own. Another’s tongue does not injure me; my own is my enemy. Deliver me; deliver me from my own tongue. My tongue is a sword and it is slaying my soul. I think that I am harming my enemy; I do not realize that I am killing myself. My adversaries may contradict me when I speak to them, but I shall speak peace.
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