Dr. Hurlbutt brings you a moment from English history
Posted on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, at 4:48 am, by Dr. Allardyce Hurlbutt.
In 1539, the parish clerk of Hastings demanded that the New Testament be burned as heretical, after he read in 1 Corinthians 9:5 that the apostles had wives, a pernicious notion he considered to undermine the compulsory celibacy of the clergy.
Source: David Daniell, The Bible in English (2003), 269.
