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Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
That would be in line with Aggies all too frequent espoused goal.
That would be in line with Aggies all too frequent espoused goal.
I used the Heine quote because of its prophetic nature, but I could just as easily have mentioned William Tyndale and his translation of the Bible into the vernacular:
" Tyndale, the great communicator, meanwhile continued with his translations of both testaments into his beautiful, flowing English taken up and finally encapsulated in the King James Bible which was to be printed in 1611. His Bibles had to be printed in pocket size editions in order to smuggle them across the Channel to those waiting eagerly in England to use them. How many were brought over will never, according to the Exhibition, be known. What is known, however, is that in 1527 William Warham the then Archbishop of Canterbury, wrote to all his bishops requesting them to share the costs of collecting all the Tyndale bibles which could be found and to burn them.
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Thomas More, who had written in Latin against Luther with his Dialogue Concerning Heresies in 1529, now had to write in English condemning Tyndale, but the later, as was the custom of the time, replied publicly with his Obedience of a Christian Man, a treatise on the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
... and Tyndale, branded as an arch-heretic, was captured in Brussels, imprisoned for over a year, tried and condemned for heresy. On 6th October 1536 he was put to death by the gruesome method of being partially strangled before being burned at the stake. "
Or the early Christian church on the works of the Greek poet Sappho, or....
but you get the drift, of course.
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