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the dore.
Now this he woteth well, yt thoughe some woordes
spoken by the mouthe of Christ written in scripture, be to
be vnderstanden only by way of a similitude or an
allegory: it foloweth not therupõ that of necessitye euerye
like woorde of Christ in other places was none other but
an allegory.
More is saying that Frith understands the whole of
Scripture to be continuous, uniform, and homogeneous space,
exactly as in the new painting of the time. The new
homogeneity of the printed page seemed to inspire a subliminal
faith in the validity of the printed Bible as bypassing the
traditional oral authority of the Church, on one hand, and the
need for rational critical scholarship on the other. It was as if
print, uniform and repeatable commodity that it was, had the