Jerome, Illustrious Men 3.1-8
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Caesariensi

, and

Caesarea

are directly attested at Jerome, Illustrious Men 3.1-8. This passage was written ca. 392-393 CE possibly in Bethlehem. Among his many works, St. Jerome wrote a catalog of renowned thinkers of the Roman world during the first years after his move from Rome to Bethlehem. In mostly brief sketches he describes the intellectual achievements, particularly writings, of 135 men, many leaders in the early Church. In his life of Matthew the evangelist, he discusses the Hebrew version of the gospel, which was available in the ecclesiastical library at Caesarea.

Mattheus qui et Levi, ex publicano apostolus, primus in Iudea propter eos qui ex circumcisione crediderunt evangelium Christi hebreis litteris verbisque conposuit; quod quis postea in graecum transtulerit, non satis certum est. Porro ipsum hebraicum habetur usque hodie in Caesariensi bibliotheca, quam Pamphilus martyr studiosissime confecit. Mihi quoque a Nazareis qui in Veria, urbe Syriae, hoc volumine utuntur, describendi facultas fuit.

[Ed. Bernoulli 1895]

Matthew, also known as Levi, a tax-farmer who became an Apostle, wrote the gospel of Christ at first published in Judaea in Hebrew for the sake of circumcised believers; someone later translated it into Greek, but the authorship is uncertain. Moreover, the Hebrew itself has been preserved until the present day in the Library at Caesarea which Pamphilus the Martyr so diligently assembled. I have also been able to have the book described to me by the Nazarenes in Beroea, a city in Syria, who use it.

[Adapted from Schaff 1892 and Halton 1999]

Works Cited

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[...] 10 3.1-2

[Eusebius, Church History 6.1-2]

[Veria (Beroea in Syria)]

[Matthew the Evangelist

Nazarenes

Pamphilus, martyr]

[Christian Bible

Christianity

Education (sacred)

Greek Language

Hebrew Language

Judaism

Roman History

Urban Topography]