The once brilliant student returned to Rome an altered man; for his holiness, learning, and humility, he was declared by all to be worthy of the episcopal dignity. Pope Damasus, the virgin Doctor of the Virgin Church, commissioned him to answer, in his name, the consultations sent from East and West; and caused him to begin, by the revision of the Latin New Testament upon the original Greek text, those great Scriptural works which have immortalized his name and entitled him to the undying gratitude of the Christian world.
mwanafunzi mara moja kipaji alirudi Roma mtu ilibadilika; kwa utakatifu wake, kujifunza, na unyenyekevu, yeye ilitangazwa na wote kuwa anastahili heshima ya Maaskofu. Papa Damasus, bikira Daktari wa Bikira Church, utakamilika yake ya kujibu, kwa jina lake, mashauriano kutumwa kutoka Mashariki na Magharibi; na zilimfanya kuanza, na marekebisho ya Amerika ya New Testament juu ya maandishi ya Kigiriki ya awali, kazi hizo kubwa la Kimaandiko ambazo immortalized jina lake na haki yake na Undying shukrani ya ulimwengu wa Kikristo.