{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/206/2060045.htm","path":"chr/ecf/206/2060045.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/206/2060045.htm","text":"p. 47 Letter XXXIV. To Marcella.\nIn reply to a request from Marcella for information concerning two phrases in Ps. cxxvii. (\u201cbread of sorrow,\u201d Psa. 127.2, and \u201cchildren of the shaken off,\u201d A.V. \u201cof the youth,\u201d Psa. 127.4). Jerome, after lamenting that Origen\u2019s notes on the psalm are no longer extant, gives the following explanations:\nThe Hebrew phrase \u201cbread of sorrow\u201d is rendered by the LXX. \u201cbread of idols\u201d; by Aquila, \u201cbread of troubles\u201d; by Symmachus, \u201cbread of misery.\u201d Theodotion follows the LXX. So does Origen\u2019s Fifth Version. The Sixth renders \u201cbread of error.\u201d In support of the LXX. the word used here is in Ps. cxv. 4, translated \u201cidols.\u201d Either the troubles of life are meant or else the tenets of heresy.\nWith the second phrase he deals at greater length. After showing that Hilary of Poitiers\u2019s view (viz. that the persons meant are the apostles, who were told to shake the dust off their feet, Matt. x. 14) is untenable and would require \u201cshakers off\u201d to be substituted for \u201cshaken off,\u201d Jerome reverts to the Hebrew as before and declares that the true rendering is that of Symmachus and Theodotion, viz. \u201cchildren of youth.\u201d He points out that the LXX. (by whom the Latin translators had been misled) fall into the same mistake at Neh. iv. 16. Finally he corrects a slip of Hilary as to Ps. cxxviii. 2, where, through a misunderstanding of the LXX., the latter had substituted \u201cthe labors of thy fruits\u201d for \u201cthe labors of thy hands.\u201d He speaks throughout with high respect of Hilary, and says that it was not the bishop\u2019s fault that he was ignorant of Hebrew. The date of the letter is probably a.d. 384.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VI: The Letters of St. Jerome.: Letter XXXIV","type":"page"}