Jerome, Illustrious Men 54.22-31
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Context
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 Origen, he discusses
Origen’s interactions with the Cappadocian Church and the Imperial family from his base
at Caesarea in the 230s C.E.
Text
Quantae autem gloriae
fuerit, hinc apparet, quod Firmillianus, Caesareae episcopus, cum
omni Cappadocia eum invitavit et diu tenuit et postea sub occasione sanctorum locorum
Palestinam veniens diu Caesareae ab eo in sanctis scripturis eruditus
est; sed et illud quod ad Mameam, matrem Alexandri imperatoris, religiosam feminam rogatus
venit Antiochiam et summo honore habitus est, et ad Philippum imperatorem, qui primus de
regibus Romanis Christianus fuit, et ad matrem eius litteras fecit quae usque hodie
extant.
1
Textual Note
Ed. Bernoulli 1895Translation
One can see how great
Origen’s glory was from the fact that Firmillian, bishop of Caesarea,
with all the Cappadocian bishops invited and hosted him for a long stay; and later, when
(Firmillian) was travelling to Palestine to visit the Holy Places, he received instruction
on the Holy Scriptures from Origen for a long time at Caesarea. But
there is also the fact that (Origen) went to Antioch at the request of Mamea, mother of the
emperor Alexander and a woman of religious devotion, and he was treated with the highest
regard. And he sent letters to the emperor Philip, who was the first Christian among the
Roman rulers, and to his mother, letters which still exist today.
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Translation Note
Adapted from Schaff 1892 and Halton 1999Works Cited
- 1 Jerome, De Viris Inlustribus: Machine Readable Text, ed. Carl Albrecht Bernoulli (Madison, WI: Google; University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2009), p: 33, line: 22-31.
- 2 Jerome, Saint Jerome: On Illustrious Men, trans. Thomas P. Halton, The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999), p: 78, ch: 54.5.
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Joseph L. Rife, “Jerome, Illustrious Men 54.22-31,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/288.
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