JEROME. I do not cease to wonder at the demand of your request. For you insist I get a book written in the Chaldean language into Latin writing, certainly the book of Tobit, which the Hebrews cut from the list of Divine Scriptures, relating those things which they have transferred to Hagiographa. I have done enough for your desire, but not by my pursuit. For the zeal of the Hebrews rebuke us and charge us, to translate this for the ears of Latins against their canon. But it is better to be judging the judgment of the Pharisees and to displease them, and serve the commands of bishops, as I have practiced. I have persisted as I have been able, and because the language of the Chaldeans is close to Hebrew speech, finding a speaker very skilled in both languages, I took to the work of one day, and whatever he expressed to me in Hebrew words, this, with a summoned scribe, I have set forth in Latin words. I will be paid the price of this work by your prayers, when, by your grace, I will have learned what you request to have been completed by me was worthy. [Jerome, Preface Tobit, PL 29:37-39]