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An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

Note 125 — V. ENFORCEMENT OF CELIBACY.

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Lib. XVI. Cod. Theod. Tit. V. l. 53. It is generally assumed from this law that Jovinian lived until 412. An expression of St. Jerome, however, (adv. Vigilant. cap. i.) would seem to show that he was already dead in 406, and critics have suggested either that there is an error in the date of the law or that another heresiarch is referred to.

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