Christ's disciples did not pass the examination. Ignorant student unable to pass his examination thus consoles himself

Motif

Christ's disciples did not pass the examination. Ignorant student unable to pass his examination thus consoles himself.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee based on church or clergy. · view the constellation · filed as J1263.1.4

Cited in the index

general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 856.

Within the index

Filed under Repartee based on clerical ignorance.

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Why ignorant priests are favored. They can always find patrons as ignorant as they are Consecration of the ignorant priest. A bishop disgusted with priest's ignorance says, "Who consecrated you as priest?" – "You did, the time I gave you ten florins." Priest who never reads mass. Peasants complain of his ignorance. He says that they stand so close to him that he is afraid they might memorize and then pay no attention to his reading of it

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