wyclif

johnthelutheran:

“The marginal comment on this delicate passage in the Geneva Bible is entertaining; it stresses that the rich whom the Apostle condemns to weep and howl are the wicked and profane rich.”

— Christopher Hill on Puritan interpretations of James 5:1-6, (from The World Turned Upside Down, p.334n)

Archbishop of Canterbury on the Pope’s plan to let in the Anglo-Catholics with a minimum of fuss, “which he knew nothing about until two weeks ago.”