Letter 10072: The years accumulate their losses as well as their satisfactions, and the late summer has brought one of each; I...

Do not grow weary in the contest.

Concerning the food of the Precursor[17] and asceticism[18].

When you were approaching the high mountain of ascetic practice, you cleansed both your clothes and senses.

Jerome forwards to Theophilus a translation of the latter's paschal letter for 404 A.D. and apologizes for his delay in sending it, on the ground that ill-health and grief for the death of Paula have prevented him from doing literary work. The date of the letter is 404 A.D.

That flattering companion, that dry and lifeless inflation, that empty and earthly glory — let it be banished from us.