Better to be always in a minority of one with God — branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel — frowned upon by the powers that be, and mobbed by the populace — or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose soul is marching on, though his body lies mouldering in the grave, or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who gave himself for the world, — in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!
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John Wycliffe was English theologian (c. 1331 – 1384). John Wycliffe was an English scholastic philosopher, Christian reformer, Catholic priest, and a theology professor at the University of Oxford. Wycliffe is traditionally believed to have advocated for or made a vernacular translation of the Vulgate Bible into Middle English, though more recent scholarship has minimised the extent of his advocacy or involvement for lack of direct contemporary evidence. Read more on Wikipedia →