Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the twenty-fourth (and final!) in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: I have become rhetorical, and have disported myself a little like a platform orator. You compelled me, Helvidius; for, brightly as the Gospel shines at the present day,…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the twenty-third in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: I do not deny that holy women are found both among widows and those who have husbands; but they are such as have ceased to be wives, or such as,…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the twenty-second in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: And now that I am about to institute a comparison between virginity and marriage, I beseech my readers not to suppose that in praising virginity I have in the least…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the twenty-first in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: But as we do not deny what is written, so we do reject what is not written. We believe that God was born of the Virgin, because we read it.…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the twentieth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: I now direct the attack against the passage in which, wishing to show your cleverness, you institute a comparison between virginity and marriage. I could not forbear smiling, and I…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the nineteenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: Now that I have cleared the rocks and shoals I must spread sail and make all speed to reach his epilogue. Feeling himself to be a smatterer, he there produces…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the eighteenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: There are things which, in your extreme ignorance, you had never read, and therefore you neglected the whole range of Scripture and employed your madness in outraging the Virgin, like…

  Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the seventeenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: Innumerable instances of the same kind are to be found in the sacred books. But, to be brief, I will return to the last of the four classes of…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the sixteenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: Now here we have the explanation of what I am endeavouring to show, how it is that the sons of Mary, the sister of our Lord’s mother, who though not…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the fifteenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: What darkness, what raging madness rushing to its own destruction! You say that the mother of the Lord was present at the cross, you say that she was entrusted to…