Endnote 11 – What Are Pagan River Gods Doing in Scenes of Jesus’ Baptism?

Jerome, Homily 89, trans. Marie L. Ewald, The Homilies of Saint Jerome, FOC 57 (Washington: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1963), vol. 2, p. 230. There was also a tradition that the Jordan waters miraculously fled back and then rose in a heap as an annual display for visiting pilgrims.