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| Chapter XXVI. He adds to the foregoing the testimony of S. Jerome.
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Chapter XXVI.
He adds to the foregoing the testimony of S. Jerome.
Jerome, the Teacher of
the Catholics, whose writings shine like divine lamps throughout the
whole world, says in his book to Eustochium: “The Son of God for
our salvation was made the Son of man. He waits ten months in the womb
to be born: and He, in whose hand the world is held, is contained in a
narrow manger.”2669
| 2669 Ep. xxii. Ad
Eustochium. | Again in his
commentary on Isaiah: “For the Lord of hosts, who is the King of
glory, Himself descended into the Virgin’s womb, and entered in
and went forth from the East Gate which is ever shut.”2670
Of whom Gabriel says to the Virgin:
“The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most
High shall overshadow thee. Wherefore that holy thing which shall be
born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” And in Proverbs:
“Wisdom hath builded herself an house.”2671
Compare this if you please with your
doctrine or rather your blasphemy, in which you assert that God is the
Creator of the months, and was not an offspring of months. For lo,
Jerome, a man of the greatest knowledge and also of the most pure and
approved doctrine testifies almost in the very words in which you deny
that the Son of God was an offspring of months, that He was an
offspring of months. For he says that He waits ten months in the womb
to be born. But perhaps the authority of this man seems a mere nothing
to you. You may take it that every one says the same and in the same
words, for whoever does not deny that the Son of God is the offspring
of the Virgin, admits that He is the offspring of
months.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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