Quote by Martin Luther King Jr.

For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome.

For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled th

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This quote suggests that both Origen and Jerome, who were ecclesiastical writers, did a poor job of interpreting and presenting the Divine Scriptures. The emphasis is on their ineptitude and absurdity in their handling of these religious texts. The quote implies that their interpretations may be considered flawed or misguided in comparison to other ecclesiastical writers.

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