Editing Jerome (section)

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{{efn|name=EOC|In the Eastern Orthodox Church he is known as ''Saint Jerome of Stridonium'' or ''Blessed Jerome''. "Blessed" in this context does not have the sense of being less than a saint, as it does in the West.}}

{{efn|name=EugeneRice|[[Eugene F. Rice, Jr.|Eugene Rice]] has suggested that in all probability the story of Gerasimus's lion became attached to the figure of Jerome some time during the seventh century, after the military invasions of the Arabs had forced many Greek monks who were living in the deserts of the Middle East to seek refuge in Rome. {{harvnb|Rice|1985|pp=44–45}} conjectures that because of the similarity between the names Gerasimus and Geronimus—the late Latin form of Jerome's name—'a Latin-speaking cleric … made St Geronimus the hero of a story he had heard about St Gerasimus; and that the author of ''Plerosque nimirum'', attracted by a story at once so picturesque, so apparently appropriate, and so resonant in suggestion and meaning, and under the impression that its source was [[Christian pilgrimage|pilgrims]] who had been told it in Bethlehem, included it in his life of a favourite saint otherwise bereft of miracles.'" {{harv|Salter|2001|p=12}} }}

{{efn|name=PL|''[[Patrologia Latina]] 25, 373'': Crebroque cryptas ingredi, quae in terrarum profunda defossae, ex utraque parte ingredientium per parietes habent corpora sepultorum, et ita obscura sunt omnia, ut propemodum illud propheticum compleatur: ''Descendant ad infernum viventes'' (Ps. LIV,16): et raro desuper lumen admissum, horrorem temperet tenebrarum, ut non-tam fenestram, quam foramen demissi luminis putes: rursumque pedetentim acceditur, et caeca nocte circumdatis illud Virgilianum proponitur (Aeneid. lib. II): "Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent."}}

{{efn|name=ndq|"(...) die griechische Bibelübersetzung, die einem innerjüdischen Bedürfnis entsprang (...) [von den] Rabbinen zuerst gerühmt (...) Später jedoch, als manche ungenaue Übertragung des hebräischen Textes in der Septuaginta und Übersetzungsfehler die Grundlage für hellenistische Irrlehren abgaben, lehte man die Septuaginta ab." {{harv| Homolka | 1999 | pp=43–}} }}

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