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Do you not know that so much reading of Scripture ruins the Catholic religion?

— Pope Paul V Rhetorical question to the Venetian ambassador (1606)

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Rhetorical question to the Venetian ambassador (1606), quoted in Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490–1700 (2003), p. 406 and G. Fragnito, La Bibbia al rogo: la censura ecclesiastica e i volgarizzamenti della Scrittura (1471–1605) (1997), p. 330

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