[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“If you check Thomas More and others, you’ll find a big part of their objection was to commoners getting hold of scripture...”

Completely false. This is what More wrote:

“The whole Bible long before Wycliff’s day was by virtuous and well-learned men translated into the English tongue, and by good and godly people with devotion and soberness well and reverently read.” (Dialogues III)

“The clergy keep no Bibles from the laity but such translations as be either not yet approved for good, or such as be already reproved for naught [bad translations or notes] as Wycliff’s was. For, as for old ones that were before Wycliff’s days, they remain lawful and be in some folks’ hand. I myself have seen, and can show you, Bibles, fair and old which have been known and seen by the Bishop of the Diocese, and left in laymen’s hands and women’s too, such as he knew for good and Catholic folk, that used them with soberness and devotion.” (Ibid)

So much for your claim.

[Mr Rogers]

Thomas More was a liar. If the Catholic Church had encouraged commoners to see scripture, then why did many thousands risk death to buy Tyndale’s work?

“The clergy keep no Bibles from the laity”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fortheDeclaration]

“The clergy keep no Bibles from the laity but such translations as be either not yet approved for good, or such as be already reproved for naught [bad translations or notes] as Wycliff’s was.

So, the clergy was going to decide what Bible the People could read.

Clearly, the People wanted to read Wyclif and Tyndale.