{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/206/2060031.htm","path":"chr/ecf/206/2060031.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/206/2060031.htm","text":"Jerome\u2019s reply to the foregoing. Exposing the error of Hilary of Poitiers, who supposed the expression to signify \u201credemption of the house of David,\u201d he goes on to show that in the gospels it is a quotation from Psa. cxviii. 25 and that its true meaning is \u201csave now\u201d (so A.V.). \u201cLet us,\u201d he writes, \u201cleave the streamlets of conjecture and return to the fountain-head. It is from the Hebrew writings that the truth is to be drawn.\u201d Written at Rome a.d. 383.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VI: The Letters of St. Jerome.: Letter XX","type":"page"}