Super onerariam navem rudis vector imponor, et homo qui necdum scalmum in lacu rexi, Euxini Maris credor fragori. Quid igitur faciam ? Quod implere non possum, negare non audeo. A member of Jeromes first band of ascetics in Aquileia he accompanied Jerome to Antioch where he died in 374. You, on the other hand, declared that in the things of God one ought to consider not the possibility, but the will, and that he who believed in the Word could not find words fail him.ġ. I distrusted my power of achievement, both because all the language of man is inadequate to the praise of heaven, and also because lack of exercise, like rust upon the midn, has dried up any slight power of eloquence that in the past I might have possessed. To that request I gave a modest, and as I now find by trial, a justified, refusal. You have often in the past asked me, my dearest Innocent 1, to relate that miraculous happening which occurred in my lifetime. Quumque ego id verecunde et vere, ut nunc experior, negarem, meque assequi posse diffiderem, sive quia omnis humanus sermo inferior esset laude cælesti, sive quia otium, quasi quædam ingenii robigo, parvulam licet facultatem pristini siccasset eloquii, tu e contrario asserebas in Dei rebus non possibilitatem inspici debere, sed animum, neque eum posse verba deficere qui credidisset in Verbo. Sæpe a me, Innocenti carissime, postulasti ut de ejus miraculo rei quæ in nostram ætatem inciderat, non tacerem. Letter 1Īd Innocentium Presbyterum de Septies Percussa Latin text adapted, with corrections, to orthographic style of 19th century. Saint Jerome - Select Letters Sanctus Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (A.D.
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