Letter 10074: I remain, despite everything, convinced that the way of life we have built — the culture, the friendship, the...

You want to know what I think about the people who've provoked me.

One of Jerome's finest letters, written to console his old friend, Heliodorus, now Bp. of Altinum, for the loss of his nephew Nepotian who had died of fever a short time previously. Jerome tries to soothe his friend's grief (1) by contrasting pagan despair or resignation with Christian hope, (2) by an eulogy of the departed both as man and presb...

The cross — the very thing the idol-worshippers mocked — crucified their polytheistic delusion.

A brief message is necessary when it is entrusted to someone in a hurry.

(Another letter to Eusebius on the same subject.) To Eusebius, My Excellent Lord and Brother, Worthy of Affection and Esteem, Augustine Sends Greeting. 1. I did not impose upon you, by importunate exhortation or entreaty in spite of your reluctance, the duty, as you call it, of arbitrating between bishops.