Epistle 83
Jerome's letter to Oceanus on theological and exegetical matters.
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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Verse 2: And the earth was without form and void
— Cited on the Holy Spirit brooding over the waters of baptism
"the Holy Spirit is here signified as brooding, as it were, over the waters of baptism, and by them bringing us to birth and regenerating us, says St. Jerome, Epistle 83 to Oceanus."