Letter 10020: The formal obligations of the season are behind me now, and I find myself with an unusual surplus of unobligated...

Helena, mother of Constantine, went to Jerusalem and found the cross [according to the tradition that Ambrose helped...

Had you been for a long time considering how best you could reply to my letter about yours, you could not in my judgment have acquitted yourself better than by writing as you have written now. You call me a sophist, and you allege that it is a sophist's business to make small things great and great things small. And you maintain that the object ...

1. It has long been expected that, in accordance with the prediction of our Lord, because of iniquity abounding, the love of the majority would wax cold. Now experience has confirmed this expectation.

In this letter Jerome defends himself against the charge of having altered the text of Scripture, and shows that he has merely brought the Latin Version of the N.T. into agreement with the Greek original. Written at Rome 384 A.D.

I was pleased to see your sons -- one come for oratory, the other leading his brother to it.