Letters
St Jerome, NPNF II.6
XXXV. Letter 35: From Pope Damasus
What is the meaning of the words “Whosoever slayeth Cain vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold”? (Gen. iv. 5.)
If God has made all things good, how comes it that He gives charge to Noah concerning unclean animals, and says to Peter, “What God hath cleansed that call not thou common”? (Acts x. 15.)
How is Gen. xv. 16, “in the fourth generation they shall come hither again,” to be reconciled with Ex. xiii. 18, Ex. xiii LXX, “in the fifth generation the children of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt”?
Why did Abraham receive circumcision as a seal of his faith? (Rom. iv. 11.)
Why was Isaac, a righteous man and dear God, allowed by God to become the dupe of Jacob? (Gen. xxvii.) Written at Rome 384 a.d.