Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VI/Prefaces/To Books of the Old Testament/To Esther

by Philip Schaff et al.

Esther.

To Paula and Eustochium, early in 404. Merely assures them that he is acting as a faithful translator, adding nothing of his own; whereas in the version then in common use (vulgata), “the book is drawn out into all kinds of perplexing entanglements of language.”