Commentary on Micah

Name: Commentary on Micah
Author: Jerome

Jerome (342–420)

Latin Text from public domain Migne Editors, Patrologiae Cursus Completus.

Translated into English using ChatGPT.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Book One

1:1

1:2

1:3-5

1:6-9

1:10-15

1:16

2:1-5

2:6-8

2:9-10

2:11-12

3:1-4

3:5-8

3:9-12

4:1-7

Book Two

4:8-9

4:10

4:11-13

5:1

5:2

5:3

5:4

5:5

5:6

5:7-15

6:1-2

6:3-5

6:6-7

6:8

6:10-16

7:1-4

7:5-7

7:8-13

7:14-17

7:18-20

Prologue

Micah, whom I now desire to dictate commentaries on, is the third in order among the twelve prophets according to the Septuagint interpreters; according to the Hebrew (or rather, the Hebrew truth), he is the sixth, and is followed by the prophet Jonah, who succeeds Obadiah, and so it happens that Amos is the third and Joel the second after Hosea, who is the first among all. Therefore, as if placed in the heart of the volume, it must contain profound mysteries and the word of God, which always descends to the prophets, also descends to Micah, who is interpreted as humility: to Micah from Moresheth, which is a small village near the city of Eleutheropolis in Palestine even to this day. But 'humility' () in our language means 'heir'. Therefore, humility, which is among the virtues or even the chief virtue, is born of the hope of the Lord's inheritance.…

Commentary on Micah

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