tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post8106346808848838921..comments2024-03-24T05:54:23.612-05:00Comments on Weedon's Blog: Commemoration of St. JeromeWilliam Weedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01383850332591975790noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-48940700462549880442009-09-30T20:01:48.671-05:002009-09-30T20:01:48.671-05:00Well, far be it from me to come down on a guy for ...Well, far be it from me to come down on a guy for getting a little sharp when refuting error, although I suppose my generally irenic tone in such matters would suggest otherwise.<br /><br />And I'll buy the second Matin's take, right along with the first's. Hell, I got a Clementine Vulgate at arm's reach just in case.<br /><br />But it does bring up another question nobody's answered. Which is, in Judaism you're supposed to learn Hebrew so you can read Scripture, in Islam you're supposed to learn Arabic so you can read the Koran, the idea being, it's only the real thing in the original language.<br /><br />So when did we get all hot on translating, leave learning Greek let alone Hebrew to the blackbirds, who then argue about the quality of the translations?<br /><br />Maybe I'll go the basement and blow some dust off my Jerome Biblical Commentary to celebrate. Got that as a gift from someone I steered to the post-conciliar RCC. There were two such people, and I suppose if there were a Purgatory the entire Enchiridion indulgentiarum performed by every last bleeding member of die Abtei would not appreciably shorten my time for that.<br /><br />Wouldn't go there myself dragged by a team of mules, but didn't know where else to send them. Now I do.Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-28190195680171423152009-09-30T19:32:20.007-05:002009-09-30T19:32:20.007-05:00There's a story about a famous painting that w...There's a story about a famous painting that was seen by Pope Sixtus, I believe it was. The painting showed Jerome with a stone with which he used to strike himself in order to try to control his famous temper. The Pope is said to have remarked that were it not for that stone Jerome would never have been canonized.<br /><br />I wonder if his penchant for monasticism influenced his Biblical translation.<br /><br />ChristineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-8397716830750706522009-09-30T14:58:55.927-05:002009-09-30T14:58:55.927-05:00The second Martin wrote of him:
"The genius ...The second Martin wrote of him:<br /><br />"The genius of Jerome was most outstanding. His unique work entitles him to eternal praise, because he translated the Bible from its original languages... And because he was also a man of much reading, many difficult questions had been learnedly explained by him. Thus in this area and especially in his commentaries he is valuable and worth reading." Chemnitz does go on to note he is a bit unreliable when it comes to ascetic fanaticism and that he was terribly sharp and excessively vehement when he was refuting error. "Thus what pertains to grammatical and historical matters in Jerome's writings can help us much, but what pertains to doctrinal points is different." Loci I:32William Weedonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01383850332591975790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-20943386949316077762009-09-30T14:34:32.256-05:002009-09-30T14:34:32.256-05:00Crabby to say the least.
He had the ear of Pope D...Crabby to say the least.<br /><br />He had the ear of Pope Damasus, but after he died, the Roman clergy investigated him re the group of wealthy women around him, particularly a certain Paula, whom he got into asceticism -- but not so ascetic as to divest Paula's money, which supported them, not to mention the ascetic practices he encouraged upon her daughter Blaesilla brought about her death within four months, yet he told her mother Paula not to mourn her.<br /><br />This outraged the Roman citizenry, coupled with Jerome's freguent lashings out at the parish clergy for not being all monky, and he was sent packing from Rome.<br /><br />His Bible translation, and the livlihood to do it, came from Paula's money.<br /><br />Martin Luther had a rather low opinion of him, and we would do well to follow that rather the piously cleaned up accounts of his life.Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-46994281545918035062009-09-30T08:29:53.711-05:002009-09-30T08:29:53.711-05:00St. Jerome is indeed noteworthy for his gifts to t...St. Jerome is indeed noteworthy for his gifts to the Church.<br /><br />Unfortunately he did make one major boo boo in retaining <i>paenitentia</i> as the translation of <i>metanoia</i>. <i>Penance</i> and <i>repentance</i> have different nuances and penance came to be seen as a work of satisfaction.<br /><br />I like Jerome, though, because he is proof of the fact that the saints are very human. It is said he could be very crabby!<br /><br />ChristineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com