During Folly’s speech in In Praise of Folly , she begins to talk about the different church positions, one of which are priests. She brings up how they work misdeeds into their sermons when stirred up, and how no one understands who they are referring to. Erasmus, through Folly, is pointing out that when people get caught up in trying to catch the culprit, they can fail to understand that it is themself, as well as the error of the priests in committing this act. Erasmus writes that, “But if anyone should anger these wasps, they’ll sufficiently revenge themselves in their public sermons and so point out their enemy by circumlocutions that there’s no one but understands whom ‘tis they mean, unless they understand nothing at all” (50). Priests are the ones who listen to others confess their sins and then go to God on behalf of them. Their job means they have dirt on dozens of people. If a person does something that makes them angry or slanders one of them, they then have loads of...