Quotes About Jerome

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.

For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome.

Jerome] is a man quite without either judgment or application.

Therefore Jerome — whether it is his own judgment or the opinion of others — says that Moses did not want to make mention of Simeon because the traitor Judas was to be born from him;28 and even up to this time the tribe of Simeon is the most contemptible among these dregs of the Jews.

But Simeon is the most abject tribe of all, for he is cursed by his father Jacob and is passed over in silence by Moses. Jerome, as I have stated, is of the opinion that no mention is made of Simeon because Judas Iscariot was to be born from that tribe.