Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VI/The Letters of St. Jerome/Letter 20

Letter XX. To Pope Damasus.

Jerome&#8217;s reply to the foregoing. Exposing the error of Hilary of Poitiers, who supposed the expression to signify &#8220;redemption of the house of David,&#8221; he goes on to show that in the gospels it is a quotation from Psa. cxviii. 25 and that its true meaning is &#8220;save now&#8221; (so A.V.). &#8220;Let us,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;leave the streamlets of conjecture and return to the fountain-head. It is from the Hebrew writings that the truth is to be drawn.&#8221; Written at Rome 383.