Letter
LXVII. From Augustine.
Jerome having written him a short letter (no longer
extant) Augustine now replies. He speaks with approval of
Jerome’s treatise
On Famous Men
, incorrectly called the
Epitaph
(see Letter CXII. §3). He also repeats his
objections to Jerome’s account of the quarrel between Paul and
Peter at Antioch and then concludes with a request that he will draw up
a short notice of the principal heresies condemned by the Church.
Like the preceding letter of Augustine (Letter LVI.)
this also failed to reach Jerome. It was however published in the West,
but without Augustine’s knowledge and by degrees its contents
found their way to Bethlehem where they caused much annoyance and pain.
The date of the letter is 397
a.d.
In
Augustine’s correspondence in this Library it is printed in full
as Letter XL.