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Hey there, Spouse. Today is Monday, September 30th, 2019. It is also the feast day of a doctor of the church, St. Jerome. This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we are going to turn our attention to the Holy Bible to Scripture so that we might understand better why we have the

Bible, what we should do with it, and how it can transform us. So today, let's start with

our patron of the day, St. Jerome. Now, St. Jerome lived a long time ago. In fact, he lived in the

300 and 400s, so a very long time ago. One of the things that St. Jerome is known for is he is the

person that first translated the Bible into Latin.

An interesting thing about the Bible is that as we talk about it this week,

you're going to hear about how many different people wrote the Bible.

Of course, God is the author of the Bible,

but he used many different people to write the Bible. He used Moses,

centuries and centuries before Jesus was born. He used the evangelists, the four men that wrote

the Gospels that were alive during the time of Jesus, and he even used people that lived after Jesus.

So many different people, and as you can guess, many different people and many different

languages. In fact, the original writing of the many books of the Bible were written in

different languages. The New Testament Bible were written in different languages.

The New Testament was mostly written in Greek.

The Old Testament was mostly written in Hebrew or different forms of Hebrew.

It was Saint Jerome who translated everything into the universal language at the time, which was Latin.

St. Jerome is also seen as a doctor of the church because of his profound teaching on the

Christian moral life, meaning how should Christians live in their daily life?

He is a great saint to keep in mind as we also dive into the

study of scripture. So let's go back to basics. The Bible, as you have it, is made up of a lot of

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