difficult to ignore

They denounced clerical vice and avarice, and repudiated most sources of clerical income and power. They denied the authority of the church fathers to interpret the scriptures and insisted on their own right to do so.

They maintained that marriage was a matter for those concerned and not a sacrament of the church. They advocated the baptism of adults, not of infants, and confession in public before the community, not in private to priests.

In short, the faith they preached plainly affirmed the values of a world in which small groups of men and women stood together as equals, dependent on each other, suspicious of outsiders and hostile to every external claim on their obedience, allegiance or wealth. They represented a challenge increasingly difficult for the reformers to ignore. --The War on Heresy, pg 100-101

it's difficult indeed.

As with many radical thinkers, Arnold’s principal achievement was to unite his enemies. -pg 113

"Augustine’s uncritical reliance on the inadequate Latin translations of the original Greek and Hebrew versions made things worse." - he didn't know neither Hebrew nor Greek 🤡 это из Closing of the Western Mind. дальше я читать не стал.