Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VI:
Prefaces.: Esther.

Esther.

To Paula and Eustochium, early in 404. Merely assures them that he is acting as a faithful translator, adding nothing of his own; whereas in the version then in common use (vulgata), “the book is drawn out into all kinds of perplexing entanglements of language.”