Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VI/Prefaces/To Books of the Old Testament/Introduction

This version was not undertaken with ecclesiastical sanction as was the case with the Gospels, but at the request of private friends, or from Jerome&#8217;s &#8220;own sense of the imperious necessity of the work.&#8221; It was wholly made at Bethlehem, and was begun about 391, and finished about 404. The approximate dates of the several books are given before each Preface in the following pages.