The Book displays. from first to last, a sincere and zealous effort
to . trace back this and that phrase or incident to its original
source. And this is one of its most important and valuable
features. But the Translator cannot wholly free himself from a
lurking suspicion that in this matter due weight may not always
have been given to the thirteenth-century knowledge of the Bible
itself. That heretical movement which figures so largely in the
following pages was admittedly marked by an intense devotion to the
Holy Scriptures, and a remarkable familiarity with that vernacular
Bible which was one of its most precious fruits. And if, as we know
to be the case, the orthodox layman Dante Alighieri possessed a
knowledge of the Old and New Testaments which might put to shame
not a few Protestants of today; why should not the learned cleric
Thomas of Celano have enjoyed a like familiarity with the sacred
texts? If this be so, may it not be unnecessary, where the .. First
or Second Life quotes some well known passage from theGospels or'
Epistles, to adduce a previous quotation of the same source from
St. Gregory, or Cassian, or Caesarius of Heisterbach? It is
however, of course possible that the passage in question, though
known directly to Celano, was in the particular instance called to
mind in virtue of its secondary association. And furthermore this
criticism even if stringently applied, would touch but a few
details of the argument, which is built on a very broad basis.
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