From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Sat Sep 20 2003 - 19:35:21 EDT
Glenn Morton wrote:
>
> Hi George,
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> >Behalf Of George Murphy
> >Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 3:20 PM
> >
>
> > It wasn't generally held in the Middle Ages that it was
> >wrong for the laity to
> >read the Bible. Of course most laypeople couldn't read anything
> >&, while there were
> >vernacular versions available, most Bibles were in Latin. & it's
> >true that laypeople
> >generally weren't encouraged to read the Bible. But the chains
> >sometimes seen on
> >medieval Bibles were to keep them from being stolen, not to keep
> >people from reading
> >them.
>
> One should tell that to Wycliffe and Wishart! :-)
I'll be happy to when I meet them. Disseminating an unauthorized translation of
the Bible would get you into trouble. & both Wycliffe & Wishart disagreed with Rome on
other matters.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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