Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

Galatians to Skara; St. John's Gospel and the
Epistle to the Ephesians to Stregnen; and so to all
the rest of the universities. There still remained
some portions of the task unappropriated; these
were distributed among the monkish orders. The
Dominicans were to translate the Epistle to Titus
and that to the Hebrews; to the Franciscans were
assigned the Epistles of St. Jude and of St. James;
while the Carthusians were to put forth their skill in
deciphering the symbolic writing of the
Apocalypse.[15] It must be confessed that the
leisure hours of the Fathers have often been worse
employed.
As one fire is said to extinguish another, it was
hoped that one light would eclipse another, or at
least so dazzle the eyes of the beholders that they
should not know which was the true light.
Meanwhile, however, the Bishop of Upsala thought
it exceedingly dangerous that men should be left to
the guidance, of what he did not doubt was the
false beacon, and accordingly he and his associates
waited in a body on the king, and requested that the
translation of Pastor Olaf should be withdrawn, at
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