Mater Dei dicit sponse, quod Ieronimus non dubitauit de assumpcione sui corporis in celum, sed quia Deus non reuelauit aperte veritatem, ideo maluit pie credere quam diffinire non ostensa; et ideo scripsit in epistola sua se nescire. Et addit hic Virgo aliqua de laude Ieronimi.
Jerome's Pious Caution
The Mother of God clarifies that Jerome's stated uncertainty regarding her Assumption was not a lack of faith, but a humble refusal to define what had not been explicitly revealed.
The Mother speaks to the bride: "What did that master, that mere windbag of words, say to you?" Is it that the letter of my Jerome, which speaks of my Assumption, shouldn't be read in the Church of God because it seems to him, in that reading, that Jerome doubted my Assumption, since he says he doesn't know whether I was assumed in the body or not, or by whom I was carried away? Therefore, I, the Mother of God, answer that teacher: Jerome didn't doubt my Assumption, but because God hadn't openly revealed this truth, Jerome preferred to believe it piously rather than to define what hadn't been shown by God.
The Virtues of the Saint
The Mother praises Jerome as a defender of truth and a vessel of the Holy Spirit, urging the faithful to heed his witness.
But remember, daughter, what I told you before: that Jerome was a lover of widows, an imitator of perfect monks, and an assertor and defender of the truth. He is also the one who earned for you that prayer you used to greet me with. I'll add this: Jerome was a trumpet of beaten metal through which the Holy Spirit spoke, and he was also a flame ignited by the same fire that descended upon me and the apostles on the day of Pentecost. Blessed, then, are those who hear this trumpet and follow it.
Read the original Latin
Mater loquitur ad sponsam: "Quid tibi dixit magister ille ventilator verborum? Quod epistola Ieronimi mei, que loquitur de assumpcione mea, non esset legenda in Ecclesia Dei, quia videtur sibi in legenda illa, quod Ieronimus dubitauit de assumpcione mea, eo quod dicit se nescire, vtrum sim assumpta in corpore vel non vel a quibus personis asportata?
Ideo ego mater Dei respondeo magistro, quod Ieronimus non dubitauit de assumpcione mea, sed quia Deus non reuelauit aperte huiusmodi veritatem, ideo Ieronimus maluit pie credere quam diffinire non ostensa a Deo.
Sed recordare, filia, quod dixi tibi prius, quod Ieronimus erat amator viduarum, imitator monachorum perfectorum et assertor et defensor veritatis. Qui et promeruit tibi oracionem illam, qua me salutabas.
Ideo nunc addo, quod Ieronimus fuit tuba ductilis, per quam loquebatur Spiritus Sanctus, necnon et flamma inflammata de illo igne, qui venit super me et super apostolos in die pentecostes. Ideo felices sunt, qui hanc tubam audiunt et sequuntur."
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