“I totally disagree with those who are unwilling that the Holy Scriptures should be translated into everyday languages and read by unlearned people. Christ wishes his mysteries to be made known as widely as possible. I would wish even all women to read the gospels, and the letters of St. Paul. I wish that they were translated into all languages of all Christian people — that they might be read and known not just by the Scots, and Irish, but even by the Turks and Sareacens. I wish that the farm laborer might sing parts of them at his plow, that the weaver might hum them at his shuttle and that the traveller might ease his weariness by reading them.”
