Early Church
Jerome
c. 347 – 420 · Bethlehem
“But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”
Psalm 1:2 (KJV)
In the Life of the Saints
A brilliant, famously irritable scholar, Jerome spent decades in a cave near Bethlehem translating the Bible directly from Hebrew and Greek into Latin. His Vulgate translation became the standard Bible of Western Christianity for over a thousand years.
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