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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

401–500

The Fifth Century

1 work

406

Latin

Against Vigilantius

Jerome · c. 347 – 420

A Gallic priest had objected to vigils at martyrs' tombs, to lighting candles by daylight, to sending money to Jerusalem instead of to the local poor, and to the whole cult of relics. Jerome answers in a single night, and mostly by abuse.

Western · PolemicRevelationMatthew1 CorinthiansActsFull text