Bodies; and others maintaining, with _Origen_, that they were all created before the World: as to himself, he declared, that he held nothing for certain but what he was taught by the Church, _viz._ that the Souls as well as the Bodies proceeded from God[N42.1]. This _Jerom_ called a false, artful, and imposing Confession, as if _Ruffinus_ did not believe what he professed in the most solemn Manner to believe; and _Anastasius_, judging of his Faith not from his own Words, but from those of _Jerom_, separated himself from his Communion. I cannot help observing here, that _Jerom_, whom nothing now will satisfy but the Condemnation of _Origen_, used a few Years before to inveigh with the same Gall and Bitterness against the Enemies of that Writer as he does now against his Friends, condemning with as much Acrimony those who accused him, as he now condemns those who excuse him. _Origen_ had been condemned in his Life-time by _Demetrius_ Bishop of _Alexandria_, and by several other Bishops: and _Jerom_, after telling us, in speaking of the Judgment that was given against him, that he had written more Books than others had time to read; and that in the Number of his Volumes he had surpassed _Varro_, and the other most eloquent Writers both _Greek_ and _Latin_; adds, _But what Reward did he receive for so much Toil and Labour? He was condemned by the Bishop_ Demetrius; _and, if we except the Bishops of_ Palæstine, Arabia, Phœnicia, _and_ Achaia, _he was condemned by all the rest. Even_ Rome _assembled her Senate against him, not because he taught any new Doctrines, or held any heretical Opinions, which those who snarl at him, like so many mad Dogs, would fain make us believe; but because they could not bear the bright Rays of his Eloquence and Knowlege, and were forced to be dumb when he spoke_. This Passage is quoted by _Ruffinus_, and _Jerom_ himself owns it to have been copied from his Letter to _Paula_[N42.2]. By the Senate that _Rome_ assembled against _Origen_, _Jerom_ meant, no doubt, the Bishop and Clergy of that City: and that he made no Account of their Judgment, sufficiently appears from the contemptuous and ironical Manner he speaks of it. However, that Father is brought in by _Baronius_ as an Evidence for _Infallibility_, on account of the Regard which he afterwards paid to the Judgment of _Anastasius_, styling it _a decisive Sentence_. But _Jerom_ had then changed his Opinion; and _Anastasius_ only condemned what he had condemned before; so that from the great Regard which _Jerom_ shewed on that Occasion for the Judgment of _Anastasius_, _Baronius_ can at most conclude, that he thought the Popes infallible when they agreed with him; for that he thought them fallible when they disagreed with him, is manifest from his not acquiescing in the Judgment of another Pope condemning _Origen_, when he himself had not yet condemned him. Footnote N42.1: