On Mon, 13 May 1996, Catherine Brown wrote:
> Jerome said "monachus non docentis, sed dolentis habet officium;" where
> did he say it, can anybody help with a reference?
Monachus autem non doctoris habet, sed plangentis officium.
Contra Vigilantium, 15; PL 23:367A.
This was a much-quoted text, and if memory serves me rightly it appears in
Gratian's Decretum with a variant or two, which may correspond more
closely to the form you quote, but I don't have the reference to
hand.
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