To Algasia

Jerome writes to a lady of Gaul named Algasia to answer eleven questions which she had submitted to him. They were as follows:—

(1) How is Luke 7:18, 19, to be reconciled with John 1:36?

(2) What is the meaning of Matt. 12:20?

(3) And of Matt. 16:24?

(4) And of Matt. 24:19, 20?

(5) And of Luke 9:53?

(6) What is the meaning of the parable of the unjust steward?

(7) What is the meaning of Rom. 5:7?

(8) And of Rom. 7:8?

(9) And of Rom. 9:3?

(10) And of Col. 2:18?

(11) And of 2 Thes. 2:3?

The date of the letter is 406 a.d.