Megan McLaughlin wrote:
>
> "And even the sodomites gave witness by being exterminated wherever
> they were in the world on that night, as Jerome says: 'A light rose
> over them so bright that all who practiced this vice were wiped out;
> and Christ did this in order that no such uncleanness might be found
> in the nature he had assumed.' For, as Augustine says, God, seeing
> that a vice contrary to nature was rife in human nature, hesitated to
> become incarnate." (Ryan translation, pg. 41)
> Jerome actually thought all "sodomites" died at the first Christmas.
> Does anyone have a clue, then, about when and where this nasty legend
> originated?
> Megan
>
Try
Bern-Ulrich Hergemoeller: Sintflut und Weihnachtssterben: Die Schuld der
Theologen. Antisodomitische Theologinnen und Theologen, in: id.: Sodom
und Gomorrha. Zur Alltagswirklichkeit und Verfolgung Homosexueller im
Mittelalter, 2. Auflage Hamburg 2000: 159-178, esp. 167-168 and 211
(Literature)
[He states that Jerome is not the origine of the story. Hergemoeller
points to Vita Marie Virginis et salvatoris rhytmica (about 1200,
annonym)
I hope, it helps..
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