From: Glenn Morton (glennmorton@entouch.net)
Date: Sat Sep 20 2003 - 16:46:36 EDT
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! :-)
>
> Shalom,
> George
>
>
>
>--
>George L. Murphy
>gmurphy@raex.com
>http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>
>
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