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Dear Jolene,<\/span><\/p>\n

Your last note brings little comfort to your imprisoned uncle. \u00a0Your study of theology ought to deepen your knowledge of the Bible, not poison it. \u00a0If you professors are treating the Bible just like any other book, as you say they are, they are doing wrong. \u00a0The Bible is not like any other book. Well, maybe I should say it\u2019s not JUST like any other book. It was written by real human authors, who used their own writing style and imagination and wits, but it was written by them under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. \u00a0It is a privileged fount of God\u2019s own Revelation! St Thomas Aquinas used to read the Gospels on his knees. That\u2019s how these fancy professors ought to be reading their Bible. After all, there is a reason why the Church tells us that Sacred Scripture is the \u201csoul of theology\u201d. \u00a0To make sure your theology doesn\u2019t die for lack of a soul, therefore, you should take a lesson from today\u2019s saint.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to being one of the greatest writers of all time, an accomplished Greek and Latin scholar, a secretary to Popes and a valiant defender of the true faith against all heretical comers (and there were a lot of them back in the fourth and fifth centuries), St Jerome was an expert in the spiritual life, a founder of monasteries, and the most brilliant Scripture commentator the Church has ever had.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jerome was born in northern Croatia (near northeastern Italy), and received an excellent education under the direction of his Christian parents. \u00a0He was sent to Rome for some finishing touches, and there he became a true master of Latin and Greek rhetoric and literature. After he had begun to make a name for himself as a scholar did his Christian faith really take hold of his heart. \u00a0At that point, he decided to travel to the Holy Land, where he joined the desert monks in northeastern Palestine, living in seclusion, prayer, fasting, and penance for four consecutive years. During that period he discovered and struggled perseveringly against the vanity and self-love that he had been cultivating for so long. \u00a0To resist the many temptations the devil threw at him in those years he occupied himself with constructive and exacting labor: learning Hebrew. And we have all benefited from it. St Jerome was later entrusted by the Pope with compiling what became the definitive translation of the Bible. Because he mastered Hebrew as well as Greek and Latin, he was able to compare the many and varying versions of the manuscripts that were circulating at the time and give us what has become known as \u201cthe Vulgate,\u201d the official Catholic Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since, the Church has set up Jerome\u2019s love for the Bible as a model for all Christians. \u00a0God speaks in a unique way through the Scriptures. Here\u2019s how Jerome himself explains it: \u201cI interpret as I should, following the command of Christ: \u2018Search the Scriptures,\u2019 and \u2018Seek and you shall find\u2019. \u00a0Christ will not say to me what he said to the Jews: \u2018You erred, not knowing the Scriptures and not knowing the power of God.\u2019 For if, as Paul says, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, and if the man who does not know Scripture does not know the power and wisdom of God, then ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So debunking Scripture would be tantamount to debunking Christ. \u00a0Maybe you can\u2019t convert all your professors, but you can at least make sure they don\u2019t de-convert you. \u00a0That would take a load off your worried uncle\u2019s shoulders.<\/span><\/p>\n

With devoted trepidation, Uncle Eddy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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