Letter 150: This letter is extant also among those of Procopius of Gaza, to whose works it properly belongs. As this Procopius flourished a century later than Jerome, the letter cannot be addressed to him. About this page Source.
Letter 150: From Procopius to Jerome
[This letter also survives among the works of Procopius of Gaza, to whom it properly belongs. Since Procopius flourished about a century after Jerome's death, it obviously cannot have been addressed to him. Another case of misattribution in the manuscript tradition.]
[Not by Jerome. Wrong attribution — Procopius of Gaza lived c. 465-528 AD, a century after Jerome's death in 420.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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1. My brother Jerome, esteemed worthy to be honoured in Christ by me, when I wrote to you propounding this question concerning the human soul — if a new soul be now created for each individual at birth, whence do souls contract the bond of guilt which we assuredly believe to be removed by the sacrament of the grace of Christ, when administered e...