A citation from the library
Jerome, on Matt 2:3
Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420
Matt 2:3 · Douay-Rheims
“And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.”
On this verse:
“(in Mich. v. 2.) The following is the sense of the prophecy. Thou, Bethlehem, of the land of Judah, or Ephrata, (which is added to distinguish it from another Bethlehem in Galilee,) though thou art a small village among the thousand cities of Judah, yet out of thee shall be born Christ, who shall be the Ruler of Israel, who according to the flesh is of the seed of David, but was born of Me before the worlds; and therefore it is written, His goings forth are of old. In the beginning was the Word.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.