Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: dangus

My source, other than Triumph? Quite a number of good, Catholic sources. And Rome did settle that one.


134 posted on 06/21/2009 7:09:55 PM PDT by Desdemona (Tolerance of grave evil is NOT a Christian virtue. http://www.thekingsmen.us/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 130 | View Replies ]


To: Desdemona

Augustine and Jerome did not quarrel over the canon of the Old Testament, but over whether it was fitting to translate the Latin bible from the Hebrew scriptures, rather than the Greek. The 3rd Council of Carthage had settled the matter of the canon long before then, which is why Jerome was so alarmed at the accusation that he desired to assert the Hebrew canon. You can find Augustine’s letters to Jerome over the translation here: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102071.htm and here. This lists all letters received by or sent from Augustine, including to and from Jerome: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102.htm

How strange it would be for Augustine and Jerome to quibble over wordings in such letters, and not reveal the much greater issue of canonicity?

I should note that I do not doubt the validity of your sources. The 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia, a lay publication, credulously states the conventional wisdom established by Martin Luther’s lies, ignorant of Jerome’s own denials of Luther’s interpretation of his introduction to the deuterocanonicals.


138 posted on 06/21/2009 7:54:36 PM PDT by dangus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 134 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson