Can You Translate the Scriptures?

Damasus was a reforming pope 300 years after Christ, the church needs reforms. While Jerome is in Rome under Damasus's papal reign, he gets to know many of the wealthy people and they ask him for help with translating scripture. He said I'll teach you how to read scripture like I read scripture and pray scripture like I pray scripture. Some of his works are explaining what we might be called 'getical scriptures' There's a controversy of the day over whether or not these were heresy.