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Jerome, on Matt 27:45
Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420
Matt 27:45 · Douay-Rheims
“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.”
On this verse:
“It follows, Some of them that stood by, &c.; some, not all; whom I suppose to have been Roman soldiers, ignorant of Hebrew, but from the words Eli, Eli, thought that He called upon Elias. But if we prefer to suppose them Jews, they do it after their usual manner, that they may accuse the Lord of weakness in thus invoking Elias.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.