Letter of Jerome to Pope Damasus
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The Epistle of Jerome
to Pope Damasus I
(Latin Epistula Hieronymi ad Damasum papam), written in 376 or 377 AD, is a response of Jerome to a epistle from Damasus, who urged him to make a new translational work of the Holy Scripture. The letter was written before Jerome started his translational work (382-405).
Jerome agreed that Old-Latin translation should be revised and corrected. There are also numerous differences between every Latin manuscript and every one looks like another version. They should be corrected on the basis of the Greek manuscripts. Jerome explained why the Old-Latin order of the Gospels (Matthew, John, Luke, Mark) should be changed into the order Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, because it is relevant for the Greek manuscripts. Jerome explained importance of the Eusebian Canons and how to use them.
The copy of letter occurs in some Latin manuscripts of the New Testament (even in Old Latin Codex Sangallensis 48). Usually it is placed at the beginning of the manuscript (e.g. Codex Sangallensis 48).
Jerome
Saint Jerome was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of Stridon, which was on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia...
to Pope Damasus I
Pope Damasus I
Pope Saint Damasus I was the bishop of Rome from 366 to 384.He was born around 305, probably near the city of Idanha-a-Velha , in what is present-day Portugal, then part of the Western Roman Empire...
(Latin Epistula Hieronymi ad Damasum papam), written in 376 or 377 AD, is a response of Jerome to a epistle from Damasus, who urged him to make a new translational work of the Holy Scripture. The letter was written before Jerome started his translational work (382-405).
Jerome agreed that Old-Latin translation should be revised and corrected. There are also numerous differences between every Latin manuscript and every one looks like another version. They should be corrected on the basis of the Greek manuscripts. Jerome explained why the Old-Latin order of the Gospels (Matthew, John, Luke, Mark) should be changed into the order Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, because it is relevant for the Greek manuscripts. Jerome explained importance of the Eusebian Canons and how to use them.
The copy of letter occurs in some Latin manuscripts of the New Testament (even in Old Latin Codex Sangallensis 48). Usually it is placed at the beginning of the manuscript (e.g. Codex Sangallensis 48).
External liniks
- Hieronymus Epistola ad Damasum at the Documenta Catholica Omnia
- Hieronymus Epistola ad Damasum
- Wikisource:Jerome's Letter to Pope Damasus: Preface to the Gospels
- Letter of Jerome to Pope Damasus