{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/206/2060130.htm","path":"chr/ecf/206/2060130.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/206/2060130.htm","text":"Letter CXIX. To Minervius and Alexander.\nMinervius and Alexander two monks of Toulouse had written to Jerome asking him to explain for them a large number of passages in scripture. Jerome in his reply postpones most of these to a future time but deals with two in detail viz. (1) \u201cwe shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed,\u201d 1 Cor. xv. 51; and (2) \u201cwe shall be caught up in the clouds,\u201d 1 Thes. iv. 17. With regard to (1) Jerome prefers the reading \u201cwe shall all sleep but we shall not all be changed,\u201d and with regard to (2) he looks upon the language as metaphorical and interprets it to mean that believers will be \u2018assumed\u2019 into the company of the apostles and prophets. The date of the letter is 406 a.d.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VI: The Letters of St. Jerome.: Letter CXIX","type":"page"}