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Often cited as a source of biographical information on ancient Christian authors, On Illustrious Men provides St. Jerome’s personal evaluations of his forebears and contemporaries, as well as catalogs of patristic writings known to him. Heterodox writers and certain respected non-Christians (Seneca, Josephus, and Philo) are included in this parade of luminaries, which begins with the apostles and...

says, “We send with him a brother whose praise in the gospel is among all the churches,”3 and to the Colossians, “Luke, the dearly beloved physician, salutes you,”4 and to Timothy, “Luke only is with me.”5 2. He also wrote another excellent volume to which he prefixed the title, Acts, πράξεων, of the Apostles,6 a history which extends to the second year of Paul’s sojourn at Rome, that is, to the fourth year of Nero, from which we learn that the book was composed in that same city.7 3. Therefore,
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