Letter 608: Do not stop overwhelming me with such treatment — keep it up, and with things still greater.

Jerome writes to Julian, a wealthy nobleman apparently of Dalmatia (§5), to console him for the loss of his wife and two daughters all of whom had recently died. He reminds Julian of the trials of Job and recommends him to imitate the patience of the patriarch. He also urges him to follow the example set by Pammachius and Paulinus, that is, to g...

1. Eutyches' heresy involves many other heresies. Leo, bishop of the city of Rome to his well-beloved brother, Julian the bishop.

What luck that the travel permit arrived late!

However much I condemned that journey, fatiguing as it was , I no less, or rather more, condemned myself for...

1. The heroic deeds of your present splendour are small, and your grand attack against me, or rather against yourself, is paltry. When I think of you robed in purple, a crown on your dishonoured head, which, so long as true religion is absent, rather disgraces than graces your empire, I tremble.