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St. Jerome: Commentary on Isaiah: Including St. Jerome’s Translation of Origen’s Homilies 1–9 on Isaiah is unavailable, but you can change that!

Saint Jerome is best known as the translator of the Latin Vulgate Bible. In medieval times, Jerome was declared to be one of the four great Doctors of the Latin Church. The Council of Trent spoke of him as “the greatest doctor in the explanation of Holy Scripture.” Jerome’s Commentary on Isaiah is his longest extant work and considered by many to be his magnum opus. Respected scholar Thomas P....

1. In a relatively short time I have finished a twenty-book commentary on the Twelve Prophets1 and a commentary on Daniel.2 Now you are compelling me, Eustochium,3 virgin of Christ, to move on to Isaiah and to give you what I promised to your saintly mother Paula4 while she was alive. In fact I recall that I had also promised this to that very learned man, your brother5 Pammachius.6 And although in affection you are equal, still,
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