2. Nazianzen giues this remarkable report of his Sister Gorgonia, namely, That she was well learned.
3. Saint Hierome, a Father, and that not one of an inferiour Orbe, the Papists themselues suppose him to march in equipage of honour with the best, yet could not he indure, that the graue Matrons of his time, should liue vnder the Tyranny of Egyptian ignorance.
1. How would hee encourage his Eustochium, his Saluina? Doth hee not ascertaine his now-celestiall Celantia, that the best course of her life, was to be con∣tinually conuersant in the holy Scriptures? yet was she a mother of a family. Si••t ergo Diuinae Scripturae sem∣per in manibus tuis, & iugiter mente voluantur, sayth he: Let therefore the Bookes of holy Writ bee euer in thy hand, euer in thy mind.
2 Why doth he so commend his Paula, that religious Gentle-woman, for setting her Maydes to Learne the Scriptures, but to leaue her as a memoriall & example, for persons of her ranke to imitate?
If any reply with Bellarmine, That not onely Paula the Mother, but Eustochium also the Daughter, had tongues enow to vnderstand the Latine, Greeke, and Hebrew Edition of the Bible: I must tell him out of the same Saint Ierome, That not onely Eustochium, but her other sisters also, who were not so well lettered, were commanded by their Mother Paula, dayly to commit to memorie, some portion of the holy Scrip∣ture.
3. See how he would sigh, and sorrow for to see, that but euen a Childe, a Damosell of seuen yeares old, should thus sit amongst these Cymmerian shades of su∣perstitious ignorance: Cùm autem virgi••••ulam ru∣dem & edentulam septimus aetatis annus exceperit, & caepe∣rit erubescere, —discat memoriter Psalterium; & vs{que} ad annos pubertatis, libros Salomonis, Euangelia, Apostolos, & Prophetas, sui cordis thesaurum faciat: When the Girle