Letter 150: This letter is extant also among those of Procopius of Gaza, to whose works it properly belongs. As this Procopius flourished a century later than Jerome, the letter cannot be addressed to him. About this page Source.
Letter 150: From Procopius to Jerome
[This letter also survives among the works of Procopius of Gaza, to whom it properly belongs. Since Procopius flourished about a century after Jerome's death, it obviously cannot have been addressed to him. Another case of misattribution in the manuscript tradition.]
[Not by Jerome. Wrong attribution — Procopius of Gaza lived c. 465-528 AD, a century after Jerome's death in 420.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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