Letter 5020: A fragmentary letter header; the text is largely lost.
[This entry preserves only a heading reference to the year 389 AD. The main text of the letter has been lost in transmission.]
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Latin / Greek Original
XXXVm (XXXVI) a. 389.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Seeck edition OCR from Internet Archive.
Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/qaureliisymmach00seecgoog
Related Letters
To Φουρτουνατιανῷ. (361)
1. It has long been expected that, in accordance with the prediction of our Lord, because of iniquity abounding, the love of the majority would wax cold. Now experience has confirmed this expectation.
What could not a sophist say? And such a sophist! One whose peculiar art is, whenever he likes, to make great things small, and to give greatness to small things!
Fortune did not plan well for you, but you, I think, have planned well for yourself.
This (written from Constantinople in A.D. 381) is the earliest of Jerome's expository letters. In it he explains at length the vision recorded in the sixth chapter of Isaiah, and enlarges upon its mystical meaning.