...this means, " the Gospel was made vulgar, and laid more open to the Laity and even to women who could read, than it used to be to the most learned of the Clergy." 1 These words of Knyghton, a canon of Leicester, and a cotemporary with Wycliffe, have been quoted...

...Englishe, . . . whence through him it became vulgar and more open to the laity and women who could read than it used to be to the most learned of the clergy, even to those of them who had the best understanding. . . . And in this way the Gospel pearl is cast...

...Englishe, . . . whence through him it became vulgar and more open to the laity and women who could read than it used to be to the most learned of the clergy, even to those of them who had the best understanding. . . . And in this way the Gospel pearl is cast...

...jewel of the clergy is turned into the sport of the laity, and what was hitherto the principal talent of the clergy and doctors of the Church is made for ever common to the laity." The translation of the Scriptures into English was a great work, not only because of the numerous...

...lamented that Wiclif had " laid it (that is, the Bible) more open to the laity and women who could read than it used to be to the most learned of the clergy." " The gospel pearl is cast abroad and trodden under foot of swine." It found its way not only to the...

...Wickliff, by translating it, has made it vulgar, and laid it more open to the laity, and even women who can read, than it used to be to the most learned...the clergy and those of the best understanding ; and thus the gospel jewel, the evangelical pearl, is thrown about and trod underfoot of swine.' Wickliff...

...out of Latin into English, and by that means laid it more open to the laity, and to women who could read, than it used to be to the most learned of the clergy, and those of them who had the best understanding: and so the Gospel pearl is cast abroad and trodden under foot...

...and the wants of men. But now the gospel is made vulgar and more open to the laity, and even to women who can read, than it used to be to the most learned...of the clergy and those of the best understanding." To say nothing of reading the Bible, what would this learned man have thought of a woman translating...

...this means the Gospel is made vulgar, and laid more open to the laity, and even to women who could read, than it used to be to the most learned of the clergy, and those of the best understanding. And so the Gospel jewel, or evangelical pearl, is thrown about and trodden under foot of swine." Even in...

...Englishe, . . . whence through him it became vulgar and more open to the laity and women who could read than it used to be to the most learned of the clergy, even to those of them who had the best understanding. . . . And in this way the Gospel pearl is cast...