{"id":115557,"date":"2022-09-30T07:33:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T11:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115557"},"modified":"2022-09-30T17:35:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T21:35:03","slug":"pope-benedict-xv-on-jerome-and-scripture-for-jeromes-feast-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115557","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict XV on Jerome and Scripture for Jerome&#8217;s Feast Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/christianhistoryinstitute.org\/dailyquote\/9\/15\">there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf we ask how we are to explain this power and action of God, the principal cause, on the sacred writers we shall find that St. Jerome in no wise differs from the common teaching of the Catholic Church. For he holds that God, through His grace, illumines the writer\u2019s mind regarding the particular truth which, \u2018in the person of God,\u2019 he is to set before men; he holds, moreover, that God moves the writer\u2019s will\u2014nay, even impels it\u2014 to write; finally, that God abides with him unceasingly, in unique fashion, until his task is accomplished. Whence the Saint infers the supreme excellence and dignity of Scripture, and declares that knowledge of it is to be likened to the \u2018treasure\u2019and the \u2018pearl beyond price,\u2019 since in them are to be found the riches of Christ and \u2018silver wherewith to adorn God\u2019s house\u2026.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelay not, Venerable Brethren [i.e. bishops], to impart to your people and clergy what on the fifteenth centenary of the death of \u2018the Greatest Doctor\u2019 we have here set before you. . . . Our one desire for all the Church\u2019s children is that, being saturated with the Bible, they may arrive at the all surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ. In testimony of which desire and of our fatherly feeling for you we impart to you and all your flocks the Apostolic blessing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Etching?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Etching<\/a> &#39;Saint Jerome Reading in the Wilderness&#39; by Rembrandt van Rijn (1634) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hCocwUqbfh\">pic.twitter.com\/hCocwUqbfh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pittipedia (Rodolfo Pitti) (@pittipedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pittipedia\/status\/1403401596881440770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From there: \u201cIf we ask how we are to explain this power and action of God, the principal cause, on the sacred writers we shall find that St. Jerome in no wise differs from the common teaching of the Catholic<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115557\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,364,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-roman-catholic","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115559,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115557\/revisions\/115559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}