NOTES ON PALLADIUS

...healed incurable diseases by prayer alone. Sozomen, Book 6, Chapter 23: original Greek: μωσῆς ἤ πραότητι κ᾿ ἀγάπη ὑπερφυῶς εὐδοκιμηκέναι παραδέδοται, κ᾿ ἰάσεσι παθῶν εὐχῇ κατορθωμέναις "Moses Referring to Moses the Ethiopian, also known as Moses the Black, a Desert Father. is handed down to us as having excelled extraordinarily in gentleness and love, and in the healing of suffering accomplished through prayer."

"When a great famine gripped the city of the Edessenes" original Greek: Λιμοῦ καταλαβόντ@ μεγάλ@ τὴν Αἰδεσινῶν πόλιν] See Sozomen, Book 3, Chapter 15, and Nicephorus, Book 9, Chapter 16. Ephraim the Syrian (c. 306–373 AD) was a prolific hymnodist and theologian; the famine mentioned refers to his humanitarian efforts in Edessa shortly before his death.

"he left behind [many] compositions" original Greek: καταλέλοιπεν ἤ κ᾿ συντάγματ@] Concerning his writings, one should consult Sozomen and Nicephorus in the places cited; Jerome in his Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers; and the Menology A liturgical book of the Orthodox Church containing lives of the saints. for the 28th day of January.

"among whom was also Paula the Roman" original Greek: ἐν αἷς κ᾿ Παύλῃ τῇ Ῥωμαίῃ] He refers to that Paula Saint Paula (347–404 AD), a wealthy Roman widow and close associate of St. Jerome. about whom he spoke above in the Life of Posidonius.

"to the mother" original Greek: τῇ μητρὶ] He adds this to distinguish her from her daughter, who was not actually called Paula, but Paulina. See Jerome in his Epitaph for her.

"to the wife of Toxotius" original Greek: Τοξοτίῳ γυναικὶ] The husband of this Paula was Toxotius. Jerome also testifies to this in the place cited: “Born therefore of such a lineage, she was joined to the man Toxotius, who draws the most noble blood from Aeneas and the Julians. And she had a son, the youngest of five children, sharing his father’s name; as Jerome reports in that same place.” original Latin: Tali igitur stirpe generata, juncta est viro Toxotio, qui AEnea & Iuliorum altissimum sanguinem trahit. Et filium habuit, quinque liberorum minimum, patri cognominem: ut ibidem tradit Hieronymus. The most learned Hervetus Gentian Hervet (1499–1584), a French theologian and translator known for his Latin versions of the Church Fathers. erred here, interpreting it as if Paula were the mother of Toxotius and the wife of some unknown man.

"to whom a certain Jerome from Dalmatia became an obstacle" original Greek: ἧς ἐμπόδιον γέγονεν Ἰερώνυμ@ τις ἀπὸ Δαλματίας] Our author Palladius was clearly quite unfair to the Blessed Jerome, as is also apparent above in the Life of Posidonius. Palladius was a partisan of John Chrysostom and a follower of Origenist teachings, which led to a historical friction with Saint Jerome, who fiercely opposed Origenism.