[Salvation]

** There he headed a monastery and during the next thirty four years completed his translation of the New Testament of the Bible into Latin and completed the a translation of the entire Old Testament from its original Hebrew texts into Latin.**

Vulgate reference for all.

[annalex]

St Jerome

Sano di Pietro

c. 1470
Tempera on panel, 95 x 51 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[Iscool]

who commissioned him to prepare the first complete Latin translations of the four gospels, St. Paul's epistles and the Psalms from their original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic texts.

Really??? So Jerome had Paul's original writings, letters written by David and Job, and the original Aramaic written Gospels...

Seems a little odd that your church would have preserved Jerome's writings but been so careless to lose those 'original' autographs...

Uh, I guess Jeremiah was lying then, in his writings...