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Updated: July 28, 2025

Many an honest brother was conspicuously of the opinion which Arran's protest assigned to Omnipotence. Mary might have gone the way of Jezebel and Athaliah but for the mistaken lenity of Knox, who later "asked God's mercy" for not being more vehement. In fact, he rather worked "to slokin that fervency."

Andrew Lang - John Knox and the Reformation