Revelation 20 and 21 and the New Jerusalem according to Ambrosiaster and Jerome

In the present contribution, I will focus on the ending that Jerome added to Victorinus’s text in order to explain Rev 20 and 21. It is in this passage that Jerome provides an allegorical interpretation that replaces the millenarian one proposed by Victorinus. Instead of seeking to treat Jerome’s interpretation of Rev 20–21 exhaustively, I will highlight three points that will shed particular light on Jerome’s approach. Specifically, I will focus on (1) the sources that might have informed Jerome’s interpretation, (2) an identical interpretation of the New Jerusalem that Jerome offers elsewhere in his corpus, and (3) polemical references that Jerome makes with reference to the exegesis of Revelation that was proposed by Ambrosiaster.