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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....

and dine with him and he with me” [cf. Rev 3:20]. Therefore he himself promises that he will dine with us from our own things. But it is certain that we too dine with him, if we dine on him. For by eating from our good words, works, and understanding, he feeds us with his own food, which is spiritual, divine and better.24 Therefore, since it is a blessed thing to receive the Savior, let us open the doors of our principal part, our heart, and prepare for him drops of honey and his whole supper. That
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