{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/206/2060047.htm","path":"chr/ecf/206/2060047.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/206/2060047.htm","text":"Letter XXXVI. To Pope Damasus.\nJerome\u2019s reply to the foregoing. For the second and fourth questions he refers Damasus to the writings of Tertullian, Novatian, and Origen. The remaining three he deals with in detail.\nGen. iv. 15, he understands to mean \u201cthe slayer of Cain shall complete the sevenfold vengeance which is to be wreaked upon him.\u201d\nExodus xiii. 18, he proposes to reconcile with Gen. xv. 16, by supposing that in the one place the tribe of Levi is referred to, in the other the tribe of Judah. He suggests, however, that the words rendered by the LXX. \u201cin the fifth generation\u201d more probably mean \u201charnessed\u201d (so A.V.) or \u201claden.\u201d In reply to the question about Isaac he says: \u201cNo man save Him who for our salvation has deigned to put on flesh has full knowledge and a complete grasp of the truth. Paul, Samuel, David, Elisha, all make mistakes, and holy men only know what God reveals to them.\u201d He then goes on to give a mystical interpretation of the passage suggested by the martyr Hippolytus. Written the day after the previous letter.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VI: The Letters of St. Jerome.: Letter XXXVI","type":"page"}