[fidelis]

Over time the bible became the property of the elites of Christendom as most people could not read Greek and Latin. As soon as men began to get better educated it was suggested it be translated into the common language of the people, and the battle lines were drawn between the elites and their Greek and Latin bibles and the common people who wanted it in their own languages.

People who don't know how to read at all (and that was the majority of the world until relatively recently in history, even up to the early 20th century) don't clamor for Bibles. The majority of people throughout history were uneducated because they were too busy scratching out a living. There have always been personal versions of the bible for those who could read and could afford them--we see many examples of them in museums and mentions of them in the writings of the saints (until the invention of the printing press all Bibles were hand made and could cost the equivalent of a years wages for the average person).

[cuz1961]

There have always been personal versions of the bible for those who could read and could afford them

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really ?

you know thats not true. William Tyndale was burnt at the stake in 1536 by the Catholics for having a bible translated into English.

Catholics burnt allot of folks at the stake for having personal bibles.

heretics teaching heresy ?

hardly.