St. Augustine, in his great work On Christian Doctrine, teaches that Sacred Scripture contains all wisdom necessary for salvation.
As St. Jerome says: “Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” This famous dictum has guided the Church’s approach to biblical study.
The reading of Paul was able not only to join the heretic Augustine to the orthodox — that is, to drag him out of the mire of the Manichæan heresy — but also to inflame him with such love of Christ.
St. Basil the Great, in his Hexaemeron, compares Sacred Scripture to a most fully stocked workshop, supplying medicines for every disease of the soul.
He who reads the Œuvres of the Fathers will find treasures beyond measure. The cœlestial wisdom contained therein surpasses all human philosophy.
“If,” he says, “you perceive that a difficult and ambiguous judgment has arisen among you, you shall do whatever those who preside in the place the Lord has chosen shall say.”
Gregory, surnamed Thaumaturgus, received from St. John an explanation of the beginning of his Gospel, in a divinely issued creed.
Among the Latins, the first to be reckoned is St. Jerome, the phoenix of his age, who devoted himself entirely to sacred Letters; he grew old studying them and bequeathed to the Latin Church his version from the Hebrew.
Homer’s songs on the wrath of Achilles are set beside the Miserere, the Lamentations, and Isaiah 53, but the sacred texts surpass them infinitely.
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