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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Jerome
DESCRIPTION:A letter from St Jerome to \nPAULINUS \n◊◊◊ \nYou see how\, carried away by my love of the scriptures\, I have exceeded \nthe limits of a letter yet have not fully accomplished my object. We have heard \nonly what it is that we ought to know and to desire\, so that we too may be able to \nsay with the psalmist: “My soul breaks out with the fervent desire it always has \nhad for your judgments”. But the saying of Socrates about himself — “I only \nknow this: that I know nothing”—is fulfilled in our case also. \nThe New Testament I will briefly deal with. Matthew\, Mark\, Luke and \nJohn are the Lord’s team of four\, the true cherubim or store of knowledge. [Like \nthe description in the prophet Ezekiel\,] with them the whole body is full of eyes\, \nthey glitter as sparks\, they run and return like lightning\, their feet are straight \nfeet\, and lifted up\, their backs also are winged\, ready to fly in all directions. \nThey hold together each by each and are interwoven one with another: \nlike wheels within wheels\, they roll along and go wherever the breath of the Holy \nSpirit wafts them. The apostle Paul writes to seven churches… He instructs \nTimothy and Titus; he interceded with Philemon for his runaway slave. Of him I \nthink it better to say nothing than to write inadequately. \nThe Acts of the Apostles seem to relate a mere unvarnished narrative\, \ndescriptive of the infancy of the newly born church; but when once we realize \nthat their author is Luke the physician whose praise is in the gospel\, we shall see \nthat all his works are medicine for the sick soul. \nThe apostles James\, Peter\, John and Jude have published seven epistles \nat once spiritual and to the point\, short and long\, short that is in words but \nlengthy in substance so that there are few indeed who do not find themselves in \nthe dark when they read them. The apocalypse of John has as many mysteries as \nwords. In saying this I have said less than the book deserves. All praise of it is \ninadequate; manifold meanings lie hid in its every word. \nI beg of you\, my dear brother\, to live among these books\, to meditate upon \nthem\, to know nothing else\, to seek nothing else. Does not such a life seem to \nyou a foretaste of heaven here on earth? Let not the simplicity of the scripture or \nthe poorness of its vocabulary offend you: for these are due either to the faults of \ntranslators or else to deliberate purpose: for in this way it is better fitted for the \ninstruction of an unlettered congregation as the educated person can take one \nmeaning and the uneducated another from one and the same sentence. \nI am not so dull or so forward as to profess that I myself know it\, or that I \ncan pluck upon the earth the fruit which has its root in heaven\, but I confess that \nI should like to do so. I put myself before the man who sits idle and\, while I lay \nno claim to be a master\, I readily pledge myself to be a fellow-student… Let us \nlearn upon earth that knowledge which will continue with us in heaven.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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