Jerome on the interpretation of Scripture

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Jerome (347-420), while commenting upon the Epistle to the Galatians, stated: Therefore, whoever understands Scripture otherwise than as the sense of the Holy Spirit demands (by whom it is written), though he does not withdraw from the Church, can nevertheless be called a heretic, and he is choosing from among fleshly works those which are worse.
Latin text: Quicumque igitur aliter Scripturam intelligit, quam sensus Spiritus sancti flagitat, quo conscripta est: licet de Ecclesia non recesserit, tamen haereticus appellari potest, et de carnis operibus est, eligens quae pejora sunt. PL 26:416-417.

The English translation above can be found at I Dial., book 3, chapters 1-5 (translation)
from William of Ockham, Dialogus, part 1, book 3, chapters 1-5. Translation by John Kilcullen.

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