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HJeronymus, Anno Aerae Christi 375. Helv. Chron. 390. say others.
* 1.1He matched any of his time in Learning in the Tongues, skill of hu∣manity, and knowledge in holy Scripture, yet was that time so plenti∣full of Learned men, as almost no time since.
Linguarum, Historiarum, & locorum situs peritissimus vir. Ful. Miscel. l. 2. c. 8. Vide c. 11. & 15.
He was mainly taken with Origen, so that he called him by way of praising him, Suum, his own.
His Epistles are approved of in Italy, France, Spain, all Germany and Africk: he was honoured and sought to farre and near by Bishops, by Noble Matrons, by great Rulers, many great personages came farre, having seen his Works, to see the Author. He had excellent skill in the Hebrew, which he got of a Jew Bar∣hanin ah, as Erasmus relates in his Life.
Vir perfecto omnium doctrinarum genere praeditus, Hebraeam prae terea linguam, Syram, Chaldaicam, Graecam, & Latinam callens. Ang. Roch. Bibl. Vatic.