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E06528: Jerome describes how Paula travelled through Palestine in 385-6 and visited the well of *Jacob (Old Testament patriarch, S00280), and the church on the site; Letter 108, written in Latin in Bethlehem (Palestine), 404.
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posted on 2018-09-17, 00:00 authored by PhilipJerome of Stridon, Letter 108.13 ('Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae')
Transiuit Sychem – non, ut plerique errantes legunt, Sichar –, quae nunc Neapolis appellatur, et ex latere montis Garizim extructam circa puteum Iacob intrauit ecclesiam.
'She passed by Shechem (not Sichar, as a great many people spell it), which is now called Neapolis, and she entered the church built on the slope of Mount Gerizim around Jacob's well.'
Text: Hilberg 1996 (1912). Translation: Cain 2013.
Transiuit Sychem – non, ut plerique errantes legunt, Sichar –, quae nunc Neapolis appellatur, et ex latere montis Garizim extructam circa puteum Iacob intrauit ecclesiam.
'She passed by Shechem (not Sichar, as a great many people spell it), which is now called Neapolis, and she entered the church built on the slope of Mount Gerizim around Jacob's well.'
Text: Hilberg 1996 (1912). Translation: Cain 2013.
History
Evidence ID
E06528Saint Name
Jacob, Old Testament patriarch : S00280Saint Name in Source
IacobRelated Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - LettersLanguage
- Latin