Bethlehem
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Town in Palestine, sought by St. Jerome as his place of study and asceticism. Lapide says he found his own "Bethlehem" in his cell in Rome.
Preliminaries
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THE LIFE OF CORNELIUS A LAPIDE.
— Lapide compares his cell in Rome to Jerome's Bethlehem
"whose holy Bethlehem, so earnestly sought by him in Palestine, I have found here in Rome"
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— David passes from the flocks of Bethlehem to the throne of Judah
"who passes from the flocks of Bethlehem to the throne of Judah"
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— St. Jerome went to Bethlehem and the holy places for his study of Scripture
"for this reason he went to Bethlehem and the holy places"