Commentary on Obadiah

Jerome (342–420)

Commentary on the Prophet Obadiah

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

Translated into English using ChatGPT.

Table of Contents

Prologue

1:1

1:2-3

1:4-6

1:7

1:8-9

1:10-11

1:12

1:13-14

1:15-16

1:17-18

1:19

1:20-21

Prologue

Prologue

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things (1 Corinthians 13). If the Apostle advances (or advanced) and, forgetting the past every day, stretches forward to what is ahead, and as according to the command of the Lord and Savior, he holds the plow and does not look back (Philippians 3; Luke 9): how much more should I, who have not yet reached the age of a perfect man, and have come to the measure of Christ (Ephesians 4), deserve forgiveness, because in my youth, provoked by zeal and enthusiasm for the Scriptures, I allegorically interpreted the prophecy of Obadiah, whose story I did not know. My soul was on fire with mystical knowledge, and because I had read that all things are possible for those who believe, I was ignorant of the different charisms: I knew the letters of the world, and for that reason I thought I could read a book with a…

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