Menno Simons on ... higher education
Reader,
do not misunderstand me. Never in my life, have I despised learning and
skill in languages, but from my youth, honored and loved them. Although,
alas, I never acquired them, yet (thanks be to God), I am not so bereft
of my senses, that I should therefore despise or ridicule the knowledge
of languages through which the precious word of divine grace came to our
knowledge. I wish that all pious minded persons possessed this knowledge,
if we would but humbly use it to the praise of our God, and the service
of our neighbors, in the pure fear of God. [p. 145]
All excerpts are from The complete works of Menno Simon (Elkhart, Ind., 1871).