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To: Mr Rogers
"They were not faulty. Tyndale’s was remarkably accurate, and many copies of Wycliffe were approved for the rich - just not for commoners. They were collected and burned (as were the folks producing them, when able) because they were accurate and meant for commoners. The Catholic Church was opposed to COMMONERS getting their hands on scripture. The rich could be controlled. The poor & middle class could not."

No offense intended, but that sounds more like an Occupy Wall Street rant than anything resembling actual history.

42 posted on 08/04/2012 10:28:40 PM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law

No offense taken, but the Catholic Church at the time was quite clear that they objected to commoners reading vernacular translations.

http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc02/htm/iv.v.lxi.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=3D0UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA640&lpg=PA640&dq=Synod+of+Toulouse+in+1229+bible&source=bl&ots=do_-xZ4s-a&sig=PD8RRWJD3MyAZisSjIV7KeTo_LI&hl=en&ei=zdXITbXVFoG8sAO1g62SAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCEQ6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q=Synod%20of%20Toulouse%20in%201229%20bible&f=false


53 posted on 08/05/2012 6:56:23 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberalism: "Ex faslo quodlibet" - from falseness, anything follows)
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