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Letter CXXIX. To Dardanus

In answer to a question put by Dardanus, prefect of Gaul, Jerome writes concerning the Promised Land which he identifies not with Canaan but with heaven. He then points out that the present sufferings of the Jews are due altogether to the crime of which they have been guilty in the crucifixion of Christ. The date of the letter is 414 a.d.

Translated by W. H. Fremantle, with G. Lewis and W. G. Martley, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 6 (1893), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. In the public domain. The editors’ footnotes are left out. About this book