Errors 2–3: forbidding vernacular Scripture; interrupting biblical reading
2. That the pontificals err who hold that translating Sacred Scripture into vernacular languages is useless, dangerous, even pernicious. So Diego Paiva de Andrade, the Portuguese, in Defense of the Tridentine Catholic Faith book 4 folio 241: "Nothing," he says, "can we now hope from the sacred Bibles made common and turned into vernacular languages except the ruin of piety, the destruction of religion, and the ruin of the faith." And folio 243: "Whoever reads Scripture's bare sentences for the most part drinks deadly poison for nectar." Stanisław Hozjusz, On reading the sacred in the vernacular, p. 664: "Now," he says, "we see it has come about by those translations into the vernacular tongue that women for whom it was more fitting at that time to weave wool have already claimed for themselves also the power of teaching; and if anyone wants to bring them back to duty and sanity, he will have more trouble with them than with the men themselves — since men are not even allowed to be Catholics through their wives, and often the husband is forced to believe what the wife wills." Sixtus of Siena agrees, Sacred Library book 6 annotation 142; Jacobus Ledesma, On the divine Scriptures not to be read everywhere in any language, chapter 3.
3. That those err who interrupt biblical reading. Of this interruption in the papacy Johannes Cochlaeus reports in his Commentary on Luther's acts and writings under the year 1521: "Before," he says, "Emser's book came out, Luther's New Testament was multiplied in a marvelous way by the printers, so that even cobblers and women and any unlearned people who had somehow learned German letters most eagerly read that New Testament as the fountain of all truth — whoever were Lutherans — and by often reading it committed it to memory, carrying the codex with them in their bosom. From which within a few months they claimed so much doctrine for themselves that they were not ashamed to dispute about the faith and the Gospel not only with laity of the Catholic party, but even with priests and monks, and even with masters and doctors of sacred theology."
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2. Errare pontificios, qui translationem Scripturae sacrae in vernaculas linguas inutilem, periculosam, imo perniciosam statuunt. Sic Diegus Paiva Andradius, Lusitanus, in defens. Tridentinae fidei catholicae lib. 4. fol. 241. Nihil, inquit, jam ex pervulgatis sacris Bibliis & in vernaculas linguas conversis nisi pietatis interitum, religionis exitium, fideiique perniciem sperare possumus. Et fol. 243. Qui nudas Scripturae sententias legit, exitiale plerunque virus pro nectare haurit. Stanislaus Hosius de sacro vernacule legendo p. 664. Nunc, inquit, translationibus istis in linguam vernaculam factum esse cernimus, ut, quas lanam texere sub id tempus magis expediebat, & sibi docendi quoque potestatem jam arrogaverint, ac, si quis eas ad officium sanitatemque reducere velit, plus cum illis, quam cum ipsis viris negotii sit habiturus, cum ne viris quidem per uxores catholicis esse liceat, & saepe quid vult uxor, credere maritus cogatur. Consentit Sixtus Senensis lib. 6. biblioth. sanctae annot. 142. Jacobus Ledesma lib. de divinis Scripturis quavis passim lingua non legendis cap. 3. 3. Errare, qui lectionem Biblicam intermittunt. De hac intermissione in papatu refert Joh. Cochlaeus Comm. de actis & scriptis Lutheri sub anno 1521. Antequam, inquiens, prodiret liber Emseri, mirum in modum multiplicabatur per chalcographos Novum Testamentum Lutheri, ut etiam sutores & mulieres & quilibet idiotae, qui Teutonicas literas utcunque didicerunt, Novum illud Testamentum, tanquam fontem omnis veritatis, avidissime legerent, quicunque Lutherani erant: illudque saepe legendo memoriae commendârunt, in sinu secum portantes codicem. Ex quo tantam intra paucos menses sibi doctrinam arrogabant, ut non solum cum laicis partis catholicae, verum etiam cum sacerdotibus & monachis, atque adeo etiam cum magistris & sacrae theologiae Doctoribus, disputare de fide & Euangelio non erubescerent.