SPEAKING OF FEAST DAYS, today is the Feast Day of
St. Jerome, paradigmatic ancient Christian Hebraist and translator of the
Latin Vulgate. The other paradigmatic ancient Christian Hebraist was
Origen, who produced the
Hexapla. But he was a heretic, so he doesn't get a feast day. Apart from these two, scarcely a gentile Christian in antiquity knew Hebrew.
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