Jerome

And now that I am writing to you I beseech you. Do not regard the bodily affliction that has befallen you as due to sin. When the apostles speculated concerning the man that was born blind from the womb and asked our Lord and Savior: "Who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" they were told "Neither has this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." Do we not see numbers of pagans, Jews, heretics and people of various opinions rolling in the mire of lust, bathed in …

Letter 68.1 ↗