“Asked who and what I was I replied: "I am a Christian." But He who presided said: "Thou…”
Asked who and what I was I replied: "I am a Christian." But He who presided said: "Thou liest, thou art a follower of Cicero and not of Christ."
Jerome · Letters · NPNF2 VI, Letters, Letter XXII, 30
The dream at Antioch, told to Eustochium: he is dragged before the judgment seat in a fever and scourged for loving the classics more than the scriptures. He kept reading them.
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These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
Read in Fremantle, Lewis & Martley, NPNF series 2 vol. 6 (1893) · W. H. Fremantle, M.A., with G. Lewis and W. G. Martley
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