The quarrel over Origen between two old friends: Rufinus's prefaces and his Apology to Anastasius and Apronianus, Jerome's three books against Rufinus, and Rufinus's Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, the earliest full explanation of the creed. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
The Apology of Rufinus, Book 2
1Summary of the Argument2The Charge of a Sworn Society of Perjury3Jerome’s Own Commentary on Ephesians4With Christ, I Condemn All Falsehood5Jerome Practices the Perjury He Charges6His Treatise on Virginity Slanders Every Order of Christians7Jerome’s Dream and His Oath Against Pagan Books8His Books Are Full of Pagan Authors9He Leans on Cicero and Horace in His Treatise on Translating10He Admits What He Owes to Porphyry11A Word of Advice12At Bethlehem He Had Pagan Books Copied and Taught Them to Boys13He Condemns as Pagan Views He Holds Himself14He Called Paula the Mother-in-Law of God15Such Impiety Cannot Be Pardoned16Jerome’s Boast of His Teachers, Didymus and the Jew Baranina17His Extravagant Praise of Origen18The Preface to Origen on the Song of Songs19The Preface to Micah20The Book of Hebrew Names21A Story About Origen22Pamphilus the Martyr and His Library23He May Praise Origen, but No One Else May24He Praised Origen’s Teaching, Not Only His Commentaries25Jerome’s Earlier and Later View of Origen26The Book of Hebrew Questions27Jerome’s Attack on Ambrose28The Preface to Didymus on the Holy Spirit29He Turns on One Christian Writer After Another30His Treatment of Melania31I Never Followed Jerome in His Errors32I Followed Him Only in His Way of Translating33In Condemning Me He Condemns Himself34He Says I Showed Origen to Be a Heretic, Yet Condemns Me35His Doubt That Pamphilus Wrote the Apology for Origen36Why Others Never Translated On First Principles37Jerome’s Translation of the Scriptures Called into Question38The Authority of the Septuagint39Has the Church Been Reading False Scriptures?40The Danger of Changing the Scriptures41Origen’s Hexapla and What It Was For42Paul’s Way of Dealing with an Erring Brother43How Jerome Should Have Answered Pammachius44The Books Against Jovinian45My Translation of On First Principles Was Meant to Help a Good Cause46The Apology Summed Up: My Faith and My Reasons47The Apology Summed Up: His Own Commentaries48The Apology Summed Up: His Attacks on Others49An Appeal to Pammachius50The Objection: Why Did My Translation Give Offense and His Not?51The Answer: Why My Translation Gave Offense and His Did Not52A Synod That Condemns Origen Must Condemn Jerome Too