„Ein voller Bauch diskutiert leicht über das Fasten.“
Epistulae 58,2
Original lat.: "Plenus venter facile disputat de ieiuniis"
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Hieronymus
Geburtstag: 345
Todesdatum: 30. September 420
Andere Namen: Svatý Jeroným, Jeroným Hieronymus, Jeroným
Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus war Kirchenvater, Heiliger, Gelehrter und Theologe der alten Kirche. Er gehört in der katholischen Kirche zusammen mit Ambrosius von Mailand, Augustinus und Papst Gregor I. zu den vier spätantiken Kirchenlehrern des Abendlandes. Gedenktag ist der 30. September. Dieser gilt für die evangelische, anglikanische, römisch-katholische, orthodoxe und armenische Kirche.
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„Ich habe immer eine Verehrung empfunden, nicht für wortreiche Weitschweifigkeit, sondern für heilige Einfachheit!“
Epistulae 57,12 - Hieronymus bezeichnete damit die schlichte Sprache der Jünger im Neuen Testament
Original lat.: "Venerationi mihi semper fuit non verbosa rusticitas, sed sancta simplicitas."
„Geirrt zu haben ist menschlich, und einen Irrtum einzugestehen ist Kennzeichen eines Weisen.“
Briefe
Original lat.: "Erravisse humanum est, et confiteri errorem prudentis."
„Den Tugenden benachbart sind die Laster.“
Dialog gegen die Luziferianer, 15
Original lat.: "Vicina sunt vitia virtutibus."
„Einem einzigen Zeugen glaubt man nicht, selbst wenn es Cato wäre.“
Adversus Rufinum 2,24
Original lat.: "Unique testi nec Catoni creditum est"
„And had I taken the line -so often adopted by strong men in controversy- of justifying the means by the result.“
— Jerome
Letter 48
Letters
Original: (la) Et sicut viri fortes in controversiis solent facere, culpam praemio redimerem.
„If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.“
— Jerome
Letter 17
Letters
Original: (la) Si rivus tenuiter fluit, non est alvei culpa, sed fontis.
„A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.“
— Jerome
Letter 3
Letters
Original: (la) Amicum qui diu quaeritur, vix invenitur, difficile servatur.
„O death that dividest brothers knit together in love, how cruel, how ruthless you are so to sunder them!“
— Jerome
Letter 60; Translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001.htm
Letters
Original: (la) O mors quae fratres dividis, et amore societos, crudelis ac dura dissocias.
„Never look a gift horse in the mouth.“
— Jerome
On the Epistle to the Ephesians
Commentaries, New Testament
Original: (la) Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.
„It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.“
— Jerome
Letter 53
Letters
Original: (la) Ne hoc quidem scire quod nescias.
„Sweet it is to lay aside the weight of the body and to soar into the pure bright ether. Do you dread poverty? Christ calls the poor blessed. (Luke 6:20) Does toil frighten you? No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. Are you anxious as regards food? Faith fears no famine. Do you dread the bare ground for limbs wasted with fasting? The Lord lies there beside you. Do you recoil from an unwashed head and uncombed hair? Christ is your true head. Does the boundless solitude of the desert terrify you? In the spirit you may walk always in paradise. Do but turn your thoughts there and you will be no more in the desert.“
— Jerome
Letter 14, 10; Translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001.htm
Letters
Original: (la) Libet, sarcina corporis abiecta, ad purum aetheris evolare fulgorem. Paupertatem times? sed beatos Christus pauperes appellat. Labore terreris? at nemo athleta sine sudore coronatur. De cibo cogitas? sed fides famem non timet. Super nudam metuis humum exesa ieiuniis membra collidere? sed Dominus tecum iacet. Squalidi capitis horret inculta caesaries? sed caput tuum Christus est. Infinita eremi vastitas te terret? sed tu paradisum mente deambula. Quotiescumque illuc cogitatione conscenderis, toties in eremo non eris.
„Dicæarchus in his book of Antiquities, describing Greece, relates that under Saturn, that is in the Golden Age, when the ground brought forth all things abundantly, no one ate flesh, but every one lived on field produce and fruits which the earth bore of itself.“
— Jerome
Book II, 13
Adversus Jovinianum
„We are always ready to imitate what is evil; and faults are quickly copied where virtues appear inattainable.“
— Jerome
Leter 107
Letters
Original: (la) Proclivis est enim malorum aemulatio, et quorum virtutes assequi nequeas, cito imitaris vitia.
„At [Nero's] hands [Peter] received the crown of martyrdom being nailed to the cross with his head towards the ground and his feet raised on high, asserting that he was unworthy to be crucified in the same manner as his Lord.“
— Jerome, buch De Viris Illustribus
Original: (la) A quo et affixus cruci, martyrio coronatus est, capite ad terram verso, et in sublime pedibus elevatis: asserens se indignum qui sic crucifigeretur ut Dominus suus.
Quelle: De Viris Illustribus, Chapter 1
„Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?"“
— Jerome
Letter 52
Letters
Original: (la) Non confundant opera tua sermonem tuum: ne cum in Ecclesia loqueris, tacitus quilibet respondeat, cur ergo haec quae dicis, ipse non facis?
„Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?“
— Jerome
Letter 107
Letters
Original: (la) Difficulter eraditur, quod rudes animi praebiberunt. Lanarum conchylia quis in pristinum colorem revocet?
