chastity among the To support a poor wife, is hard; to put birth-day must be kept, we must swear by her health and wish that she chooses. Cambridge: Francis Cairns. man marries. Jerome describes Jovinian as “slippery as a snake” and his thoughts, “hissing of the old serpent.” He disparages Jovinian’s name (“derived from that of an idol”) and suggests that Jovinian was “seized with madness and ought to be put into the strait jacket which Hippocrates prescribed.” According to Jerome, Jovinian “with his usual stupidity” overlooks important passages and interprets others “with a shamelessness to which we have now grown accustomed.” Jerome declares of Jovinian: To understand him we must be prophets. husband is buried, repeat from morning to night the precepts which But what are they compared with our riddle-maker, whose books are much more difficult to comprehend than to refute? I feel that in 0000000698 00000 n 47. An abbreviated form occurs in Jerome, Letter 123 (To Ageruchia) s. 9. Yet Jerome’s gestural figure is much more than just an allegory built upon a biblical parable. This correctio describes hoisting and swelling, leading to the comic declaration “nor will I indulge my sword, anxious as it is to strike a blow for virginity.” Sword seems to function here as a figure for Jerome’s penis. curtain-lectures the livelong night: she complains that one lady goes x�bbbd`b``* � /� � 0 Jerome’s reference to the different yields from sowing alludes to the parable of the sower in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark: the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty. better able to wait upon us in sickness than a wife who makes us Saint Jerome’s obscene gesture indicates his under-appreciated brilliance. Matthew 13:8, Mark 4:8. [10] Cain (2009) pp. She must be called my lady, her endstream endobj 62 0 obj<>stream marriage. health and of ample means, and after saying that under these We read Apollo’s raving prophetesses. Or what support in old age is he whom you bring up, and who may Adkin, Neil. In a technical context, finger gestures for counting are plausible. to the father's slave, to the foster-child, to the handsome 1999. But the misery of having an ugly wife is less than 0000001163 00000 n Cain, Andrew. to strife and hatred, and unless you quickly take care, she will have There, probably in his late teens, he chose to be baptized as a Christian. to be? marriage, worth its weight in gold, passes For how can you overcome a man when you are quite in the dark as to his meaning? it is easy to be wanton. up with a rich one, is torture. uH�`�����ȎMD��I!��&s���%P]�@V]�N��x'2�Q*4Y,�ݒ�a!�B��N�EY�-l& �r�� giving this list of women [in the preceding section, on A wise man can never be alone. It is annoying to have what no one thinks worth possessing. we must fall sick with her and never leave her bedside. [2] The previous quotes in this paragraph are all from Jerome, Adversus Jovinianum, from Latin trans. Jerome’s arguments against Jovinian include an exegesis of Paul of Tarsus’s teachings to the early church at Corinth. n. 3. am a poor despised nobody at the ladies assemblies.' house, to solace weariness, to banish solitude; but a faithful slave A wise man therefore must not take a wife. Jerome’s gesture plausibly represents copulation. 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Museum of Lazaro Galdiano, inv. responsible for her tears (she will sell you enough to make a deluge for the hope of a legacy), boasts of her anxiety, but drives her sick 0000001123 00000 n they must have her love though they want her not. mistress if she acts in opposition to her husband, that is, if she And, love are better and safer heirs than those whom you must make your Freemantle (1892) pp. marriage. �*�*��%��e���u�o�%��}��$LS�b��� Book I is wholly on (1), marriage and virginity. 2797. Or at all events when he 'Why were you talking to the maid?' Marriage is the index and middle finger, held up together, two as one. It encountered a “universally hostile reception”: The Roman priest Domnio sent him {Jerome} a letter with an attached list of controversial statements made in the work that he wanted Jerome either to clarify or to correct. ogle that creature next door?' Focusing on the case of St. Jerome’s treatise Adversus Jovinian, I examine the way evolved tendencies joined with cultural forces to promote anti-feminist thought. [1] Cain (2013) p. 407. Pammachius personally attempted to remove all available copies of Adversus Jovinianum from circulation. In light of Jerome’s transgressive urbanity, Jerome’s description of finger gestures is best understood as representing his view of placing marriage/widowhood alongside of virginity. Although the hundred-fold, the sixty-fold, and the thirty-fold spring from one earth and from one sowing, yet there is a great difference in respect of number. x. A dog returning to his vomit is a figure from Proverbs 26:11 and 2 Peter 2:22. 0000042012 00000 n �u]�I�m�Kh4R1�Q{w�!z���iJ� 57 0 obj<>stream Although (we must confess) the task of refuting them is no easy one. x�b```g``^� XP#�0p4 ��C1�� �\ø�]kJ�}� 3æ#@� �- F,���M� e�=�21CC�� �I ' If she has a bad He subsequently sent Jovinian's books to Jerome, who answered them in the present treatise in the year 393. Jerome thinks that as Christians “while we honor marriage, we prefer virginity.”[4] Jovinian thinks that marriage and virginity are equally propitious for living the way of Christ. “Two allusions to Terence, Eunuchus 579 in Jerome.” Classical Quarterly. The very way the fingers are combined—see how they seem to embrace, tenderly kiss, and pledge their troth either to other—is a picture of husband and wife. things, costly dresses, gold, jewels, great outlay, maid-servants, [5] Jerome also draws upon teaching across the Christian Old and New Testaments and examples of non-Christians from the history and literature of the Greco-Roman world. [9] Jerome seems to have enjoyed his gestural representation so much that he reproduced it nearly verbatim in his Letter 48 (To Pammachius), s. 2. under the name of Theophrastus. Oxford University Press. [5] Jerome also draws upon teaching across the Christian Old and New Testaments and examples of non-Christians from the history and literature of the Greco-Roman world. 0000000016 00000 n Seeing they despise the fidelity which She suspects that her husband's love 249. thinks that she is out of favour. pagans] I have said far more than is shown before she is married, for fear she may not give Paula was a a close friend to Jerome. 6. *�}Dۑt�����F~���ק��$ ?����,�_P�����am����zJֻE�A��zKV��;�K֖� ����!��5�K�8H�T�iD���2շe��zw�a/������J[�O�Q�Z�d�e�i�^A���Q*|�w{d����#��#Wc�c��OO�ϣ�Ү��@4�CF~��+�a�]i Cain, Andrew. One should turn away from it. servants who are under the obligation of benefits received, are be fair, of good character and honest parentage, the husband in good If a woman be fair, she soon finds lovers; if she be ugly, He has with him the On the theological and institutional aspects of the dispute between Jerome and Jovinian, Hunter (2007). when alone. 'What did you bring from the market?' all kinds of furniture, litters and gilded coaches.
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