 A light and sweet odour came into his study and a voice told him that "he might as soon enclose the ocean in a small vessel, as soon clasp the whole earth in his fist, as soon halt the movement of the heavens as describe the beatitude of the saints without having experienced it", as the speaker was now doing.When Augustine asked who he was, he replied he was Jerome.Augustine later heard that Jerome had died in Jerusalem at exactly that hour.