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What do you think the preacher meant by this?

Elizabethan preacher proclaimed that because “the cause of plagues is sin” and “the cause of sin are plays,” then “the cause of plagues are plays.” One

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He means that plays and entertainment like plays are full of sinful ideas that are responsible for the plague. The plague is sort of God's wrath on the world.

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