Rufinus's side of the Origenist quarrel has never been translated into English. HOLLIS on 'Rufinus apology against Jerome' returns no translation of the Apologia: the English item that dominates the result list is Jerome's counter-attack, 'The Apology against the Books of Rufinus', in Fathers of the Church 53 (1965); the rest are studies (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Rufinus%20apology%20against%20Jerome&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Princeton returns the same picture, with Pierre Lardet's French commentary on Jerome's Apology but nothing English for Rufinus (https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog.json?q=Rufinus+apology+Jerome&search_field=all_fields). The Latin is available in Migne and in Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 20, but no English volume was found.
This is the defence that provoked Jerome's Apology, and the indispensable other half of the best-documented literary feud of late antiquity. With only Jerome's version in English (FOTC 53), readers get the case for the prosecution without the defence, and Rufinus's reputation as a careless translator of Origen cannot be tested against his own words.
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| The Reign of Caesar and the Birth of Christ : Constructing Christian Roman Empire in Rufinus and Orosius | Scully, Aidan Robert (AB, Harvard University, 2025). "The Reign of Caesar and the Birth of Christ : Constructing Christian Roman Empire in Rufinus and Orosius." [not published], 2025. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158711451703941 |
| ‘The Reign of Caesar and the Birth of Christ’ : Constructing the Christian Roman Empire in Rufinus and Orosius | Scully, Aidan Robert, (AB, Harvard College, 2025). "‘The Reign of Caesar and the Birth of Christ’ : Constructing the Christian Roman Empire in Rufinus and Orosius." Harvard University, 2025. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158639637803941 |
| Documents illustrating papal authority, A.D. 96-454 | Giles, Edward. "Documents illustrating papal authority, A.D. 96-454." London, S.P.C.K., 1952. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990012698720203941 |
| Masterpieces of Catholic literature in summary form | Magill, Frank N. (Frank Northen), 1907-1997. "Masterpieces of Catholic literature in summary form." New York, Harper & Row [1965]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990025664560203941 |