[difficulty of uneducated readers grasping the idea that there could be two versions of a story]. 'Therefore [Thomas Carter]... not only read Revelations literally: he assumed that the books of Kings and Chronicles were "unconnected narratives of two distinct series of events; and also that the four gospels were consecutive portions of the history of Jesus Christ, so that I supposed there had been four crucifixions, four resurrections and the like".'