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Cyprian's adversaries did not shrink from so foul a perversion of his name as to call him Koprianos, or 'the Dungy. But then how often is Pelagius declared by the Church Fathers to be a pelagus, a very ocean of wickedness. The Waldenses, or Wallenses, were declared by Roman controversialists to be justly so called, as dwelling 'in valle densa, in the thick valley of darkness and ignorance.
The Saxons, when they seized upon Britain, called this nation, as they did all foreigners, Wallenses; and thus the barbarous name remains to the people and their country.
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