CHAPTER LXXX
ARGUMENTS OF AEGIDIUS CARLERII (CONCLUDED)
Jesus is now very poor and he does not have multitudes following him, excepting the outcast and the unlearned.. . . But the doctors are too rich and too famous in the world; they have begotten many servants of God with swords – that is why all the world looks up to them.
Therefore, when a worldly-wise man beholds Christ, abandoned, dressed in the garb of poverty and full of threats of danger,The Narrow Path
& the Broad Way they will turn away from him and follow after the doctors who serve God with great learning in cathedrals, in armies, with bailiffs, at thumbscrews, in city-halls, beneath pillories and gallows. The whole wise world is following such service of God, but only a fool will come after Christ and be ridiculed by all and sundry.
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