Sophronius (; ) was a Christian theologian and translator of the late 4th century AD, a friend of Jerome.A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being a Continuation of "The Dictionary of the Bible". (1877:29). United Kingdom: J. Murray.
In Jerome's De viris illustribus, he writes that Sophronius wrote "In praise of Bethlehem," which was Jerome's hometown; Of his country of origin, there is no certain information; it is known he had knowledge of Greek, Latin and Biblical Hebrew, and that he also lived in Bethlehem as part of Jerome's learned community. He also wrote: On the overthrow of Serapis, referring to the Graeco-Egyptian god Serapis whose worship was displaced by Christianity To Eustachius On Virginity (perhaps to Eustathius of Antioch, a zealous critic of Arianism) Life of Hilarion the monk, a hagiography of Hilarion (291–371)
He also translated some of Jerome's work into Greek. Jerome dedicated his Latin Psalters to Sophronius.Williams, M. H. (2006:87). The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship. United Kingdom: University of Chicago Press. In his De Viris Illustribus, Jerome mentions that Sophronius and he translated The Psalter and the Prophets from Biblical Hebrew into Latin together.
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