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Hideaway and Commonplace
Behold! human beings living in a underground den; here they have be
from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that
they cannot move, and can only see before them .... To them, the tr
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
You have forgotten how long you have been wandering in this vast,
dim, misty cavern. Passageways lead off in every direction ... |
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Sixtus V, Pope from 1585 to 1590 authorized a printing of the Vulga
Bible. Taking no chances, the pope issued a papal bull automatical
excommunicating any printer who might make an alteration in the tex
This he ordered printed at the beginning of the Bible. He personal
examined every sheet as it came off the press. Yet the published
Vulgate Bible contained so many errors that corrected scraps had to
printed and pasted over them in every copy. The result provoked wr
comments on the rather patchy papal infallibility, and Pope Sixtus
no recourse but to order the return and destruction of every copy. |