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The original of Hieronymus is to be found in a plan which, however, he never executed, and
vol. iv. p. ii. p. 98, of the Benedictine edition, which, in fact, was in a great measure superseded
While both the original and the translation are by his more elaborate commentaries, and by his
given by Vallarsi. It was published separately, translation of the whole Bible. Written about
along with the catalogues of Gennadius, Isidorus, 388. (Ed. Bened. vol. ii. p. 505.)
&c. Colon. 8vo. 1500, Antw. fol. 1639, and with 2. Commentarii in Ecclesiasten, frequently rethe commentaries of Miraeus and others, Helmst. ferred to in his Apology against Rufinus. Written
4to. 1700. at Bethlehem about A. D. 388. (Ed. Bened. vol.
ii. p. 715.)
VOL..II 3. In Canticum Canticorum Tractatus II. From
15. De Nominibus Hebraicis. An explanation the Greek of Origen, who is strongly praised in the
of all the Hebrew proper: names' which occur in preface addressed to Pope Damasus. Translated
the Scriptures, those in each book being con- at Rome-in A. D, 383. (Ed. Bened. vol. ii. p. 807;
sidered separately, in alphabetical order. Many comp. vol. v. p. 603.)
of the derivations are very forced, not a few evidently false, and several words which are purely VOL. IV.
Greek or purely Latin, are explained by reference 4. Commentarii in lesaianm, in eighteen books.
to Semitic roots. The most full and highly finished of all the labours
Philo Judaeus had previously executed a work of Jerome in this department. -It was commenced
of the same description for the Old Testament, and apparently as early as A.D. 397, and not comOrigen for the New, and these formed the basis of pleted before A. D. 411. Tillemont considers that
the present undertaking but how much is original there is an allusion to the death of Stilicho in the
and how much borrowed from these or other similar preface to the eleventh book. (Ed. Bened. vol. iii.
compilations we cannot determine accurately. (Vid. p. i.)
Praef.) Written about 388 or 390, while he was 5. Homiliae novem in Visiones Iesaiae ee Gr-aeco
still an admirer of Origen, who is pronounced in Origenis. Rejected by Vallarsi in his first edition
the preface to be second to the Apostles only. (Ed. as spurious, but admitted into the second, upon
Bened. vol. ii. p. 1.) evidence derived from the Apology of Rufinus.
16. De Situ et Nominibus locorurn Hebraicorumn. (See Vallarsi, vol. iv. p. ii. p. 1098.) This must
Eusebius was the author of a work upon the geo- not be confounded with a short tract which Jerome.
graphy of Palestine, in which he first gave an wrote upon the visions of Isaiah (Comment. in Ies.:
account of Judaea and of the localities of the twelve c. vi.), when he was studying at Constantinople in
tribes, together with a description of Jerusalem 381, under Gregory of Nazianzus, and in which he
and of the temple; and to this was appended a seems to have called in question the views of
dictionary of the names of cities, villages, moun- Origen with regard to the Seraphim. (Ep. xviii.
tains, rivers, and other places mentioned in the ad Damasum.)
Bible. Of the last portion, entitled lIspl Acov To- 6. Commentarii in Jeremiam, in six books, exTrIKiv zOveia'rwv a-mW' T' E T ela E ypad?., which is tending to the first thirty-two chapters of the
still extant in the original Greek, we are here pre- prophet, one or two books being wanting to comsented with a translation, in which, however, we plete the exposition which was commenced late in
find many omissions, additions, and alterations. life, probably about A. D. 415, frequently interThe names found, in each book are placed sepa- rupted, and not brought down to the point where
rately, in alphabetical order. Written about 388. it concludes until the year of the author's death,
(Ed. Bened. vol. ii. p. 382.) (Ed. Bened. vol. iii. p. 526.)
In the present state of our knowledge, neither of VOL. V.
the above productions can be regarded as of much
importance or authority; but in so far as purity of 7. Commentarii in Ezechielem, in fourteen books,
text is concerned, they appear under a much more written at intervals during the years A. D. 411
accurate form in the edition of Vallarsi than any -414, the task having been begun immediately
of the earlier impressions, especially the latter, after thecommentaries upon Isaiah, but repeatedly
which was carefully compared with a very ancient broken off. See Prolegg. and Ep. 126 ad Marceland excellent MS. of Eusebius in the Vatican, not ia. et Anapsych. (Ed. Bened. voltiii. p.698.)
before collated..V8. Commentarius in Danielean in one book.
We now come to the largest and most important Written A.. 407, after the completion of the
section of the works of Hieronymus, to which the notes on the minor prophets, and before the death
two preceding tracts may be considered as intro- of Stilicho. See praef. (Ed. Bened. vol. iii. p.
ductory, viz.- -172.)
III. COMr aENTARyI BIBLaCI, or annotations, 9. Iomiliae Origenis XXVIII. in Jeremiam et
critical and exegetical, on the Scriptures. Ezechielens, forming a single work, and not two, as
1. Quaestionum Hebraicarum in Genesim Liber. Erasmus and Huetius supposed. Translated at
Dissertations upon difficult passages in Genesis, in Constantinople after the completion of the Eusebian
which the Latin version as it then existed is com- Chronicle (A. D. 380), and before the letter to
pared with the Greek of the Septuagint and with Pope Damasus on the Seraphim (Ep. xviii.)
the original Hebrew. Jerome speaks of these in- written in 381.
vestigations with great complacency in the preface VOL. VI.
to his glossary of Hebrew proper names. " Libros 10. Commentarii in XII. Propketas mtinores,
enim Hebraicarum Quaestionum nunc in manibus drawn up at intervals between A. D. 392 and
habeo, opus novum, et tam Graecis quam Latinis 406. Nahum, Micah, Zephaniah, Haggai, and
usque ad id locorum inauditum," and had resolved Habakkuk were printed in 392, Jonah in 397,
(see Praef. in Heb. Quaest.) to examine in like Obadiah probably in 403, the remainder in 406.
manner all the other books of the Old Testament, (Ed. Beoned. vol. iii. p. 1234-1806.)
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