Document: Letter 78
Reference: Stegmuller 3319
Incipit: In septuagesimo septimo psalmo
Addressee: Fabiola
Date: 400 (Kelly p. 211)
Earliest ms.: Leningrad, Russia: Publichnaja Biblioteka, Q.v.I.9, f. 153-191
Latin Text: CSEL 55, pp. 49-87
Notes: A treatise on the Forty-two Mansions or Halting-places of the Israelites, originally intended for Fabiola but not completed until after her death. Sent to Oceanus along with the preceding letter. These Mansions are made an emblem of the Christian’s pilgrimage, the true Hebrew hastening to pass from earth to heaven. (Fremantle, p. 163)

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