Saint Peter and Saint John were idiots simply because they were laymen. They had no qualifications and were therefore their own men, rather than belo… - Mark Forsyth

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Saint Peter and Saint John were idiots simply because they were laymen. They had no qualifications and were therefore their own men, rather than belonging to some professional class. If they had spoken their own language it would have been an idiom, and if they had been eccentrics with their own way of doing things (which they undoubtedly were) they would have been idiosyncratic.

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