Jerome to the brothers Pammachius and Oceanus, with all good wishes.ġ. The rest of the letter deals with the errors of Origen, the state of the text of his writings, and the eulogy of him composed by the martyr Pamphilus (the authenticity of which Jerome assails without any sufficient reason).

He then describes his own studies and recounts his obligations to Apollinaris, Didymus, and a Jew named Bar-anina. He admires him in the same way that Cyprian admired Tertullian but does not in any way adopt his errors. Electronic version copyright © 1996 by New Advent, Inc.Ī calm letter in which Jerome defines and justifies his own attitude towards Origen, but unduly minimizes his early enthusiasm for him. Remove then the suspicions men cannot help feeling and confute your assailant for, if you ignore his implications, people will say that you admit their truth.įormatted by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. The writer in the preface to his work has, with much subtlety but without mentioning your holiness's name, implied that he has done no more than complete a work which you had yourself promised, thus indirectly suggesting that you agree with him. You will also confute and overthrow all statements in the sheets which we have sent to your holiness that are ignorantly made or contradict the Catholic faith. We therefore request your excellency to be so good as to bestow upon this particular matter an attention which will benefit not only ourselves but all who reside in the city we ask you to publish in your own language the abovementioned book of Origen exactly as it was brought out by the author himself and we desire you to make evident the interpolations which his defender has introduced. We suspect also that with a view of clearing the author many passages of his books have been removed which had they been left would have plainly proved the irreligious character of his teaching. These contain many things which disturb our poor wits and which appear to us to be uncatholic. Pammachius and Oceanus to the presbyter Jerome, health.Ī reverend brother has brought to us sheets containing a certain person's translation into Latin of a treatise by Origen-entitled peri arkpn. ) and request Jerome to make for them a literal translation of the work. Letter LXXXIII FROM PAMMACHIUS AND OCEANUSĪ letter from Pammachius and Oceanus in which they express the, perplexity into which they have been thrown by Rufinus s version of Origen's treatise, On First Principles (see Letter LXXX.

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