Wednesday, March 11, 2026
A Growling Stomach
Jerome, Letter 22.11 (Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, vol. 54, p. 158; to Eustochium; tr. F.A. Wright):
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Not that God, the Lord and Creator of the universe, takes any delight in the rumbling of our intestines or the emptiness of our stomach or the inflammation of our lungs...I don't have access to Neil Adkin's commentary on this letter.
non quo deus, universitatis creator et dominus, intestinorum nostrorum rugitu et inanitate ventris pulmonumque delectetur ardore....
