Epistle 53 (to Paulinus)
Jerome's famous letter on the difficulty of Scripture and the need for learned guides, here cited separately from the full reproduction in the Clemens file.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— Jerome to Paulinus quoted: David's prayer about the veil of ignorance
"If so great a prophet," says St. Jerome to Paulinus, "confesses the darkness of his ignorance, with what night of ignorance do you think we, who are little ones and virtually still infants, are surrounded?"