Letter XXXIII

[2585] Origen died at Tyre about the year 255 a.d. [2586] See note on Letter LXX. § 4. [2587] tomoi. [2588] Tractatus. [2589] Hexaëmeron: an account of the creation is meant. [2590] Gen. xxxiv. 30. [2591] His father Leonides suffered martyrdom in the persecution of Severus. [2592] Rom. x. 2. [2593] i.e. Judas the Gaulonite whose fanatical rising against the Romans is mentioned in Acts v. 37. [2594] Hor. A. P. 359, 360. [2595] Cf. Gal. i. 8. [2596] Rom. i. 8. [2597] The (traditional) founders of the Roman Church. [2598] Jerome was baptized at Rome about the year 367 a.d. [2599] Pelusiotæ, men of Pelusium, supposed to be derived from pelos, "clay." See Jerome's Comm. on Jer. xxix. 14-20. [2600] Gal. iv. 26. [2601] See the description of Rufinus in Letter CXXV. 18. [2602] Matt. v. 44 from memory. [2603] This treatise the joint work of Eusebius and his friend Pamphilus has perished. Part of the Latin version of Rufinus still remains. Jerome at this time erroneously supposed that the two friends had written separate works in defence of Origen. (See De VV. Ill. c. 75, 81, in vol. iii. of this series.) [2604] In accordance with this edict (promulgated in 88 b.c.) all the Romans in Pontus were massacred in one day. [2605] This letter is no longer extant. [2606] A wealthy Alexandrian, who employed shorthand writers to take down Origen's lectures. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. B. vi. c. 23. [2607] If the text is sound here Jerome is again misled by supposing that Eusebius and Pamphilus had written separate books in defence of Origen. [2608] Eusebius calls himself Eusebius Pamphili, that is, the friend of Pamphilus.'