A Study of Peter Chelčický's Life and a Translation from Czech of Part I of His Net of Faith (1947)/Part 2
PART II
TRANSLATION OF THE "NET OF FAITH" BOOK ONE:
THE CORRUPTION OF THE CHURCH CAUSED BY ITS
FUSION AND CONFUSION WITH TEMPORAL POWER
NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATION
The translator tried to put into modern English thoughts preserved in medieval Czech. In order to do this he felt he had to have liberty in translation and occasional license to paraphrase. As to the faithfulness to the Czech original, the translator endeavoured not to commit major distortions of essential meanings. Where he felt it advisable to paraphrase freely a certain passage or to condense a section in his own words, he marked the beginning and end of each paraphrase by a combination of brackets and colons, thus: (: ... :).
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