Jerome
Church father · died 420
The great scholar and translator of the Latin church. Born in Dalmatia, he studied at Rome, lived as a monk in Syria, and from 386 at Bethlehem. At Pope Damasus’s request he revised the Latin Gospels against Greek manuscripts in 383, the beginning of the Vulgate, and went on to translate the Old Testament from the Hebrew.
Quoted For
- John 7:53–8:11 “And every man went unto his own house …”
The church fathers are the early Christian writers. Their quotations show which reading was known, where, and when, often earlier than any manuscript of the passage that survives.
