Jerome

English

And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night. And there was made evening and morning, one day.

Fresh draft (Claude), approved by Wilson Pruitt · cc-by

Latin

PL 28, col. 163C · pd

Notes

Jerome keeps the cardinal against the Latin ear: dies unus, then dies secundus, tertius. Every Latin argument in this crux — Ambrose's, Bruno's, Rupert's — exists because he did not write dies primus. PL 28 prints the text with 'Factumque est vespere et mane, dies unus'.

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  Jerome's 'dies unus' renders the LXX's cardinal ἡμέρα μία, not an ordinal; the whole Latin quarrel over unus and primus rests on a word the Greek had already kept from the Hebrew.