“For to have an ideal is one thing, to realize it another. It is one thing to live so as…”
For to have an ideal is one thing, to realize it another. It is one thing to live so as to die, another to die so as to live.
Jerome · Letters · NPNF2 VI, Letters, Letter LX, 14
From the letter consoling Heliodorus on the death of his nephew Nepotian — the same young priest Letter LII was written to instruct. Jerome sets Paul against Plato: the sage dies out of his glory, the Christian into it.
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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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