The Post-Nicene Latin Fathers (Volume 4) - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt: ... Scriptures; a hundred others, including many treatises. Controversial Treatises: Against Helvidius, Jovinian, Vigilantius, Rufinus. Dialogues against the Pelagians and against the Luciferians. Biographical: The Ecclesiastical Writers; and Lives of Paul, Hilarion, Malchus. TRANSLATIONS: Didymus's Holy Ghost; Eusebius's Chronicon; Pachomius's Rules; various homilies of Origen. Biblical Criticism: Prefaces to books in his versions; On the Names of Scripture Places from Eusebius; On the Hebrew Proper Names; Questions on Genesis. RUFINUS, The Latin translator. He is best known to us as the friend and the enemy of Jerome. Born in the territory of Aquileia, about the middle of the fourth century, he was baptized in a monastery in the year 370, or thereabout. Soon after he set out from Rome for the East, in company with Melania, a devout lady of noble rank, who founded a monastery at Jerusalem for men and women, herself presiding over the nuns, and Rufinus over the monks. They lived here twenty-five years, Rufinus forming or renewing an intimate friendship with Jerome. Upon the rise of the Origenistic controversy, Rufinus was a defender and Jerome an opponent of Origen. The quarrel between them became bitter, but the breach was for a time nominally healed. At last, however, Rufinus returned to Italy, and there, besides a translation of Pamphilus's " Apology for Origen," published a free translation of Origen's " De Principia," in the introduction to which he praised Jerome as one who had also admired and translated Origen. To be delivered from his friends, who were thus endangering his reputation for orthodoxy, Jerome immediately wrote his "Apology against Rufinus," to which Rufinus responded with two books of " Invectives." So violent was this controversy that i...