Translation of Jerome's Letter to Paula (#30)?

[BibleWheel]

Selected translations of Jerome's Letters are found in Philip Schaff's Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, but it doesn't translate Jerome's Letter to Paula (Letter 30). I can't find any other source anywhere on the internet. All I have found are replication's of Schaff's work.

If anyone knows of a translation of this letter, please let me know.

Thanks!

Richard

Edit: oops! I mispelt the subject. It should read "Letter to Paula."

Text Restored.

[BibleWheel]

Now this is weird. I added this line:

"Oops! I mispelt the subject. It should read "Letter to Paula" with an a at the end."

For some strange reason, this showed up as "Edited by a moderator." Humm .... its probably because I put my edit between edit tags [ edit ] ...

[George Murphy]

[QUOTE=BibleWheel]Selected translations of Jerome's Letters are found in Philip Schaff's Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, but it doesn't translate Jerome's Letter to Paula (Letter 30). I can't find any other source anywhere on the internet. All I have found are replication's of Schaff's work.

If anyone knows of a translation of this letter, please let me know.

[QUOTE]

Richard -
For a brief shining moment I thought it was in the Eerdmans reprint of the Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers but that has only a 1 paragraph summary. The Loeb Classical Library doesn't have it at all. Sorry.

Shalom,
George

[BibleWheel]

[QUOTE=BibleWheel]Selected translations of Jerome's Letters are found in Philip Schaff's Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, but it doesn't translate Jerome's Letter to Paula (Letter 30). I can't find any other source anywhere on the internet. All I have found are replication's of Schaff's work.

If anyone knows of a translation of this letter, please let me know.

[QUOTE]

Richard -
For a brief shining moment I thought it was in the Eerdmans reprint of the Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers but that has only a 1 paragraph summary. The Loeb Classical Library doesn't have it at all. Sorry.

Shalom,
George
Hi George,

Thanks for the effort. I had a similar "brief shining moment" that quickly faded. The 1-paragraph summary is all I have been able to find anywhere. There is a very interesting book, The Alphabetic Labarynth where the author discusses the letter and translated fragments of it from a French edition, but I don't have access to that either.

In Christ,
Richard

[porter]

All I have been able to find is the following.

TO PAULA.

Some account of the so-called alphabetical psalms (37, 91, 112, 119, 145). After explaining the mystical meaning of the alphabet, Jerome goes on thus: "What honey is sweeter than to know the wisdom of God? others, if they will, may possess riches, drink from a jewelled cup, shine in silks, and try in vain to exhaust their wealth in the most varied pleasures. Our riches are to meditate in the law of the Lord day and night,(1) to knock at the closed door,(2) to receive the 'three loaves' of the Trinity,(3) and, when the Lord goes before us, to walk upon the water of the world."(4) Written at Rome A.D. 384

http://www.ccel.org/fathers/NPNF2-06/

[BibleWheel]

All I have been able to find is the following.

TO PAULA.

Some account of the so-called alphabetical psalms (37, 91, 112, 119, 145). After explaining the mystical meaning of the alphabet, Jerome goes on thus: "What honey is sweeter than to know the wisdom of God? others, if they will, may possess riches, drink from a jewelled cup, shine in silks, and try in vain to exhaust their wealth in the most varied pleasures. Our riches are to meditate in the law of the Lord day and night,(1) to knock at the closed door,(2) to receive the 'three loaves' of the Trinity,(3) and, when the Lord goes before us, to walk upon the water of the world."(4) Written at Rome A.D. 384

http://www.ccel.org/fathers/NPNF2-06/
Thanks Porter,

Unfortunately, that's all I've ever been able to find too.

Richard