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Patristic A.D. 420 · Historical Christian Faith commentaries database, on 2Tim 3:6 (LETTERS 22.28)

Jerome, on 2Tim 3:6

Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420
2Tim 3:6 · Douay-Rheims
“For of these sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, who are led away with divers desires:”
On this verse:
“Avoid men, also, when you see them loaded with chains and wearing their hair long like women, contrary to the apostle's precept, not to speak of beards like those of goats, black cloaks and bare feet braving the cold. All these things are tokens of the devil. Such a one was Antimus, who Rome groaned over some time ago. And Sophronius is a still more recent instance. Such persons, when they have once gained admission to the houses of the highborn, and have deceived "silly women laden with sins, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth," feign a sad face and pretend to make long fasts while at night they would feast in secret.”

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