{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/206/2060124.htm","path":"chr/ecf/206/2060124.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/206/2060124.htm","text":"Letter CXIII. From Theophilus to Jerome.\nTheophilus, bishop of Alexandria, had compiled an invective against John Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople who was nosy (largely through his efforts) an exile from his see. This he now sends to Jerome with a request that the latter will render it into Latin for dissemination in the West. The invective (of which only a few fragments remain) is of the most violent kind. Nevertheless Jerome translated it along with this letter, the date of which is 405 a.d. The latter part of the letter has perished.\nTo the well-beloved and most loving brother Jerome, Theophilus sends greeting in the Lord.\n1. At the outset the verdict which is in accordance with the truth satisfies but few. But the Lord speaking by the prophet says: \u201cmy judgment goeth forth as the light:\u201d 3052 and they who are surrounded with a horror of darkness and do not with clear comprehension perceive the nature of things, are covered with eternal shame and know by the issues of their acts that their efforts have been in vain. Wherefore we also have always desired for John who has for a time ruled the church of Constantinople grace that he might please God, and we have been slow to attribute to him the rash acts which have caused his downfall. But, not to speak of his other misdeeds, he has taken the Origenists into his confidence, has advanced many of them to the priesthood, and by committing this crime has saddened with no slight grief that man of God, Epiphanius of blessed memory, who has shone throughout all the world a bright star among bishops. And therefore he has rightly come to hear the words of doom: \u201cBabylon is fallen, is fallen.\u201d 3053\n2. Knowing then that the Saviour has said: \u201cjudge not according to the appearance but judge righteous judgment.\u201d 3054 \u2026\nHos. vi. 5, LXX.\n214:3053 214:3054","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VI: The Letters of St. Jerome.: Letter CXIII","type":"page"}