Jerome

Born in Dalmatia and educated in Rome, Jerome combined a scholar's obsessiveness with a satirist's tongue. After a famous dream in which Christ accused him of being 'a Ciceronian, not a Christian,' he turned his formidable learning wholly to Scripture, studying Hebrew with Jewish teachers — almost unheard of for a Christian of his day. From a monastery beside the cave of the Nativity in Bethlehem he produced the Vulgate, the Latin Bible that served the West for more than a millennium, along with commentaries, translations of Origen, and letters that spare no one, least of all himself. He died there in 420.

In a feverish dream Christ rebuked him — 'You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian' — after which he vowed his learning to Scripture.

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