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Quotation from The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
“And for popes, that supply the place of Christ, if they should endeavor to imitate His life, to wit His poverty, labor, doctrine, cross, and contempt of life, or should they consider what the name pope, that is father, or holiness, imports, who would live more disconsolate than themselves”
The Praise of Folly, Popes and prelates, trans. John Wilson (1668)
Folly measures the papacy against the life of Christ and finds that wisdom would cost the popes their wealth, guards and wars.
Citation: "And for popes, that supply the place of Christ, if they should endeavor to imitate His life, to wit His poverty, labor, doctrine, cross, and contempt of life, or should they consider what the name pope, that is father, or holiness, imports, who would live more disconsolate than themselves" — Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, Popes and prelates, trans. John Wilson (1668). (id erasmus-praise-of-folly-q9)
