This volume of the Homilies of Saint Jerome contains fifteen
homilies on Saint Mark's Gospel, Homilies 75-84. In general, as in
Volume 1, Morin's text has been followed as reproduced in the
Corpus Christianorum, series latina 78. The editors of the Corpus
have added two homilies, one delivered on the Feast of the Epiphany
from the Gospel of our Lord's baptism and on Psalm 28, edited by B.
Capelle; the other on the First Sunday of Lent, edited by I.
Fraipont. In the present volume, they are Homilies 89 and 90. Dom
Germain Morin, as noted in the Introduction of Volume 1 of this
translation, discovered fourteen homilies, providing a second
series on the Psalms, in four Italian Codices dating from the tenth
and fifteenth centuries. He examined with great care their probable
identity with, or relationship to, the lost homilies of Saint
Jerome catalogues in De viris illustribus 'on the Psalms, from the
tenth to the sixteenth, seven homilies.' There is more work to be
done and many problems to be resolved, however, before this
identification can be established with certitude. This chief
obstacle is that of chronology. The De viris illustibus was written
in all probability in 392-393, whereas the homilies appear to have
been written in 402, the date determined by the study of Dom Morin.
Other scholars, as U. Moricca, A. Penna, G. Grutzmacher, give 394
and 413 as the earliest and latest dates, respectively, for all the
homilies. There is question also whether the Septuagint or the
Hebrew Psalter was in the hands of Jerome when he wrote or preached
the homilies on Psalms 10 and 15. They seem, in fact, to have been
written rather than delivered, for he speaks of readers rather than
hearers. They differ from the regular series of sermons in their
greater erudition, more sophisticated language, many Greek
expressions, and variations from the Hexapla. The closing doxology
so characteristic of the other sermons is missing in them. They are
much longer, and Jerome speaks of certain details as if he had
already explained them. On the whole, they give evidence, too, of
greater care in preparation.
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