The clergy were also furious with Wycliffe and Hus for teaching that the bare text, the original inspired Scriptures with nothing added, had greater authority than the glosses, the ponderous traditional explanations in the margins of church-approved Bibles. It was the undiluted message of God’s Word that these preachers wished to make available to the common man.

g89 8/22 17

w86 6/15 29-31

w97 9/15 26

sh 312