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This volume of the Homilies of Saint Jerome contains fifteen homilies on Saint Mark’s Gospel, Homilies 75–84. In general, as in volume 1, Morin’s text has been followed as reproduced in the Corpus Christianorum, series latina 78. The editors of the Corpus have added two homilies, one delivered on the Feast of the Epiphany from the Gospel of our Lord’s baptism and on Psalm 28, edited by B....

Jerusalem; but to the Savior, the whole world. All the inhabitants kept on coming: ‘and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.’ They were baptized by John. John the Baptist offers them the protection of the Law; hence, the Jews are baptized only in respect to the Law. They were coming to Jerusalem and were baptized by him in the Jordan, in the river flowing downstream. The Law, indeed, is downstream; although it baptizes, it is still downward. That is what the name
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