https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome
just about every painter in the history of christian art depicts jerome as an emaciated and sad-faced ascetic, determinedly translating the scriptures even whilst death approaches ... rubens turns him into hercules ... and gives him two cherubs for company ... jerome famously advocated virginity ... the cherubs are usually agents of love and all of its conjoining forces ( think venus & mars ) ... so i'm guessing rubens was giving jerome's beliefs a light-hearted dismissal
