For example, during the Middle Ages in certain “Christian ” lands,“ the possession and reading of the Bible in the vernacular [the language of the common people] was increasingly associated with heresy and dissent, ” says the book An Introduction to the Medieval Bible.
इतर भाषांमध्ये बायबलचं भाषांतर करणारे किंवा बायबलचा अभ्यास करण्याचं उत्तेजन देणारे विद्वान, खरंतर आपला जीव धोक्यात घालत होते.