ABSTRACT
In recent decades scholars have become increasingly interested in the flourishing of Pauline exegesis in the late antique Latin Church, and in particular in Rome during the later fourth and early fifth centuries. At least four Latin writers produced commentaries during this period: Marius Victorinus; Ambrosiaster; Jerome; and Pelagius. The recent critical editions of Jerome's commentaries on Titus and Philemon and on Galatians provide a better grounding than has hitherto been available for the debate about a number of important issues related to the exegesis of the "younger" Jerome. A decisive stimulus for the choice of Galatians, after Philemon, may have come to Jerome from the relevance that the letter had for him in 386. During his time in Rome Jerome had matured in the conviction that, when faced with issues raised in the New Testament by references to and quotations from the Old Testament or with other textual matters regarding the Old Testament.
