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From The Epistle of St Jerome to Demetriades

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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Copyright © 1951 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

Footnotes

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College of St John Baptist, Oxford, MS. 94, folio 127. Not Jerome, but Pelagius; ch. ix of the original. Migne P.L. 30, col. 24, line 5.

References

2 gradus, degree

3 Translator's prologue.

4 acceptably, convenient, pleasing. The passages in italics are underlined in the text and are generally translations of scriptural texts—but not invariably.

5 Latin: scito itaque in scripturis divinis, per quas solas potes plenam Dei intelligere coluntatem. (English, modifies this, albeit obscurely.)

6 Compare the text: conceduntur quidem nuptiae carnium usus et vinum: sed horum omnium abstinentia, concilio perfectiore suadetur. Ad virginitatis honorem pertinet lioentia nuptiarum: et escarum indulgentia tirtutem abstinentiae clariorem fecit.

7 promised.

8 that one, i.e., the counsels; that other, i.e., the commandments.

9 The corrected Latin text has: De justitia non dicitur: Qui potest facere, faciat. (Cap. X, col. 25. Migne op. cit.

10 Behight: is promised.

11 addeth.

12 close, bar.

13 more lightly.