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Handout #122 |
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The escalation of repression |
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A bishop cannot demand the death of heretics.
We have not received power to cut off from this life by the secular sword
those whom our creator and redeemer wills to live so that they may extricate
themselves from the snares of the devil ...
Those who today are our adversaries in the way of the Lord can, by the grace of God, become our betters in the heavenly country ... We who are called bishops did not receive unction from the Lord to give death but to bring life. Wason, Bishop of Liege, letter to the Bishop of Chalons, about 1045 A.D. |