Ut in his reperias aliquam partem uasorum Dei : Jerome and the Pagan Culture in the CDan

The image of the <i>vasa domus Dei</i>, repeated on two occasions in the book of the prophet Daniel (<i>Dan</i> 1:2 and 5:4), enables Jerome to formulate an explicit judgement on pagan culture. Drawing extensively on a well-established repertoire, he highlights in one case its positive aspects and in the other its negative ones, and so in <i>CDan</i> 1,1,2b, he underlines the presence, at least in philosophy, of some truths drawn from the doctrine of God; in <i>CDan</i> 2,5,4, he discusses the wicked use the heretics make of the <i>saeculares litterae</i>.

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