The Spirit and Distinction

Cum autem quis semel Christum indutus fuerit, et missus in flammam, Spiritus sancti ardore canduerit, non intelligitur aurum sit an argentum. Quamdie calor massam sic possidet, igneus color est, et omnis diversitas generis, conditionis et corporum aufertur istiusmodi verstimento. Non est enim Judaeus, neque Graecus. Pro Graeco Gentilem accipere debemus, quia Ἕλλην, et Graecum et Ethnicum utrumque significat. Nec Judaeus idcirco melior est, quia circumcisus est; nec Gentilis ideo deterior, quia praeputium habet; sed pro qualitate fidei, vel Judeaus, vel Graecus melior, sive deterior est. Servus quoque et liber, non conditione separantur, sed fide, quia potest et servus libero esse melior, et liber servum in fidei qualitate praevertere. Masculus similiter et femina, fortitudine et imbecillitate corporum separantur. Caeterum fides pro mentis devotione censetur, et saepe evenit ut et mulier viro cause salutis fiat, et mulierem vir in religione praecedat. Cum autem ita se res habeat, et totat diversitas generis, conditionis et corporum. Sanctus Hieronymus, Commentariorum in Epistolam ad Galatas, Liber II

When someone shall have put on Christ and the fire is sent and he blazes with the heat of the Holy Spirit, it is not to be thought that there is gold and silver there. However much heat one has, the color of fire is the same, and every difference of type, condition and body is removed by this vestment. There is neither Jew nor Greek. For Greek we are to understand Gentile, because 'Hellene' here means both Greek and Foreigner. Nor is a Jew better because he is circumcised, nor is a Gentile worse because he has a foreskin, but by the quality of faith either a Jew or a Greek is better or worse. The slave and the freeman should not be separated by status but by faith because in faith the slave is able to be better than the freeman and the freeman is able to be surpassed by the slave. So it is with male and female. Strength and weakness of body separate them. But when devotion of the faithful mind is reckoned often it is found that the woman is the cause of the salvation of the man and the man is surpassed by the woman in piety. And so it is with this and with every difference of type, condition and body. Saint Jerome, Commentary on the Letter to the Galatians, Book 2  1 Gal 3. 11-12  2 Hab 2.4  3 Philip. 3.6  4 Jn 9.25