What is the meaning of IGNORANCE OF THE SCRIPTURE IS IGNORANCE OF CHRIST.
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This famous quote from the most famous Scripture scholar of all time, St. Jerome:
Date of Birth: Saint Jerome was born 329
Date of Death: Saint Jerome died A.D. 420
Saint Jerome translated the Bible into Latin by order of Pope St. Damasus I at the end of the fourth century to make the Bible more available to Christians. And his Vulgate is the only official “Bible” to this day in the Catholic Church.
The following if from Taylor Marshall’s website. Dr. Marshall was an Anglican minister who converted and became one of the foremost Catholic scholars in the world:
Today is the feast of Saint Jerome. Saint Jerome is the patron saint of Scripture Studies because he collected hundreds of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin manuscripts of the Bible, translated the Bible into Latin, and wrote extensive commentaries on the Sacred Scriptures. He was a man of the Bible.
Saint Jerome is known for his famous assertion that to be ignorant of Scripture is to be ignorant of Christ. This quote, from the Patron of Scripture Studies, is a wonderful reminder to Protestants that the Catholic Church has a long-standing tradition of biblical study and memorization.
Here’s the well-known quote in context – from his prologue to the book of Isaiah. Interestingly enough, Saint Jerome calls the prophet Isaiah both an Apostle and Evangelist since he reveals so much about Christ, even before the Savior’s birth:
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IGNORANCE OF SCRIPTURE
Christ will not say to me what he said to the Jews: You erred, not knowing the Scriptures and not knowing the power of God. For if, as Paul says, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, and if the man who does not know Scripture does not know the power and wisdom of God, then ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.