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To: donmeaker

Sounds to me like Wycliff should be grateful for St. Jerome, and for the preservation of his work and countless others by poor monks in the monasteries he (ahem) hated.


274 posted on 10/15/2013 7:39:02 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: MrChips

Don’t think Wycliff went around digging up corpses.

So who is the hater?


275 posted on 10/15/2013 7:41:22 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: MrChips

Wycliff didn’t hate the poor monks in the monastries, RATHER, he attacked the concentration of wealth in the church at the expense of the people. He promulgated the authority of scripture at a time (like today) when there were two living popes.

Of course the luxurious clerics were offended with being told that their oaths of poverty meant they would actually be poor.


279 posted on 10/15/2013 9:56:06 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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