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Jesus is now very poor and he does not have multitudes following him, excepting the outcast and the unlearned. But the doctors are too rich and too famous in the world; they have begotten many servants of God with swords – that is why all the world looks up to them.

Therefore, when a worldly-wise man beholds Christ, abandoned, dressed in the garb of poverty and full of threats of danger, they will turn away from him and follow after the doctors who serve God with great learning in cathedrals, in armies, with bailiffs, at thumbscrews, in city-halls, beneath pillories and gallows. The whole wise world is following such service of God, but only a fool will come after Christ and be ridiculed by all and sundry. 239*