Socrates

Greek philosopher. Jerome closes his survey of Scripture by invoking "that Socratic saying: I know only this, that I know nothing."

Works

• Apology of Socrates

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Jerome closes his survey of Scripture by invoking "that Socratic saying: I know only this, that I know nothing"

  "For the rest, that Socratic saying is fulfilled in us: 'I know only this, that I know nothing.'"

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• Chapter I: On the Excellence, Necessity, and Fruit of Sacred Scripture — Listed among philosophers who are "children" before Scripture

  "here Socrates, Pimander, Anaxagoras, Thales, and Aristotle are children"

• Chapter II: On the Object and Breadth of Sacred Scripture — Used to say he knew only this: that he knew nothing

  "Socrates used to say that he knew only this: that he knew nothing"

• Moses as the Most Ancient Theologian, Philosopher, Poet, and Historian — Listed among sages preceded by Moses

  "Homer, Hesiod, Thales, Pythagoras, Socrates"

• I. The Old Testament Establishes Faith — Jerome says one should sing "that Socratic saying: I walk on air and look down upon the sun"

  "ever sing to oneself that Socratic saying"

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

• Argumentum — Listed among the sages of Greece whom Moses preceded

  "Homer, Hesiod, Thales, Pythagoras, Socrates"