Letter 59: An answer to five questions put to Jerome by Marcella in a letter not preserved. The questions are as follows. (1) What are the things which eye has not seen nor ear heard 1 Corinthians 2:9?
Letter 59: To Marcella (c. 395 AD)
[An answer to five questions Marcella put to Jerome in a letter that hasn't survived. The questions range from eschatology ('What are the things that eye has not seen nor ear heard?' — 1 Corinthians 2:9) to soteriology (whether the sheep and goats of Matthew 25 represent Christians vs. heathens, or good vs. bad people within the church). Jerome answers that the unseen things are spiritual realities discernible only by the Spirit, and refers Marcella to his treatise Against Jovinian for the sheep-and-goats question.]
[The full text of this letter exists only as a summary in the available source.]
Human translation — New Advent (NPNF / ANF series)
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