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THE SCHOLARS OF THE RENAISSANCE 57
his contemporaries. Fortune seemed to favour the theolo-
gians. They were backed by the sympathy of University
and Parlement, and warmly supported by the foremost
statesman of the day, the Chancellor Duprat, who hated
learning and Reform. In spite of all, the Sorbonne was for
once impotent. In vain it re-iterated that Greek was the
language of heresy, Hebrew of Judaism; in vain it con-
demned the proposition that Scripture could not be properly
understood without the study of both languages; and in
vain it pronounced St. Jerome’s Latin version infallible.
On this occasion the Parlement itself dared not actively
espouse such verdicts against the College of the King. In
a last effort to vie with its rival, the ancient University
even tried to decant a little new wine into its old bottles;
but it lost any possible chance of popularity by closing the
public University Lectures, its chief link with the outside
world.
his contemporaries. Fortune seemed to favour the theolo-
gians. They were backed by the sympathy of University
and Parlement, and warmly supported by the foremost
statesman of the day, the Chancellor Duprat, who hated
learning and Reform. In spite of all, the Sorbonne was for
once impotent. In vain it re-iterated that Greek was the
language of heresy, Hebrew of Judaism; in vain it con-
demned the proposition that Scripture could not be properly
understood without the study of both languages; and in
vain it pronounced St. Jerome’s Latin version infallible.
On this occasion the Parlement itself dared not actively
espouse such verdicts against the College of the King. In
a last effort to vie with its rival, the ancient University
even tried to decant a little new wine into its old bottles;
but it lost any possible chance of popularity by closing the
public University Lectures, its chief link with the outside
world.