Friday, September 30, 2005

SPEAKING OF FEAST DAYS, today is the Feast Day of St. Jerome, paradigmatic ancient Christian Hebraist and translator of the Latin Vulgate. The other paradigmatic ancient Christian Hebraist was Origen, who produced the Hexapla. But he was a heretic, so he doesn't get a feast day. Apart from these two, scarcely a gentile Christian in antiquity knew Hebrew.

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