of truth was justly offended by this exegesis, which, to save the dignity of Peter, ascribed falsehood to Paul, and he expressed his opinion to Jerome, who, however, very loftily made him feel his smaller grammatical knowledge. But they afterward became reconciled. Comp. on this dispute the letters on both sides, in Hieron. Opera, ed. Yall. tom. i. 632 sqq., and the treatise of Mohler, in his " Ver- mischte Schriften," vol. i. p. 1-18. ^ " Tantis de toto orbe confluentibus obruimur turbis monachorum." ' The Jesuit Stilting, the author of the Vita Hieron. in the Acta Sanctorum, de- votes nearly thirty folio pages to accounts of the veneration paid to him and his relics after his death. 214 THIRD PERIOD. A.D. 311-590. the failings also of his age and of the monastic system. It must be said to his credit, however, that with all his enthusiastic zeal and admiration for monasticism, he saw with a keen eye and exposed with unsparing hand the false monks and nuns, and painted in lively colors the dangers of melancholy, hypo- chondria, the hypocrisy and spiritual pride, to which the insti- tution was exposed.^ §42. St: Paula. HiEEONYMTJS : Epitaphium Paulte matris, ad Eustocliium virginem, Ep. cviii. (ed. Vallarsi, Opera, torn. i. p. 68J: sqq. ; ed. Bened. Ep. Ixxxvi). Also the Acta Sanctorum, and Butler's Lives of Saints, sub Jan. 26. Of Jerome's many female disciples, the most distinguished is St. Paula, the model of a Roman Catholic nun. With his * Most Roman Catholic biographers, as Martianay, Yallarsi, Stilting, Dolci, and even the Anglican Cave, are unqualified eulogists of Jerome. See also the " Selecta Veterum testimonia de Hieronymo ejusque scriptis," in Vallarsi's edition, torn. xi. pp. 282-300. Tillemont, however, who on account of his Jansenist proclivity sympa- thizes more with Augustine, makes a move toward a more enlightened judgment, for which Stilting sharply reproves him. Montalembert (1. c. i. 402) praises him as a man of genius, inspired by zeal and subdued by penitence, of ardent faith and im- mense resources of knowledge ; yet he incidentally speaks also of his " almost savage impetuosity of temper," and " that inexhaustible vehemence which sometimes de- generated into emphasis and affectation." Dr. John H. Newman, in his opinion be- fore his transition from Puseyism to Romanism, exhibits the conflict in which the moral feeling is here involved with the authority of the Roman Church : "I do not scruple to say, that, were he not a saint, there are things in his writings and views from which I should shrink ; but as the case stands, I shrink rather from putting myself in opposition to something like a judgment of the catholic (?) world in favor of his saintly perfection." (Church of the Fathers, 263, cited by Robertson.) Luther also here boldly broke through tradition, but, forgetful of the great value of the Vulgate even to his German version of the Bible, went to the opposite extreme of unjust derogation,