same, and said, The bigness of the head, that is, the big or great
head.

With such and the like fopperies were petty brains troubled, said
Luther, and were instructed neither in good arts nor in divinity.
Antipho, Chusa, Bovillus, and others were likewise miserably
molested and plagued about bringing a thing which was round into
four square, and to compare a straight line with a crooked. But we,
God be praised, have now happy times; and it were to be wished that
the youth made good use thereof, and spent their studying diligently
in such arts as at this time are green, and flourish.


That the Jews have better Teachers and Writers of the Holy
Scriptures than the Gentiles.

When I read in the Psalter, said Luther, I do much admire that David
had such a spirit. Oh, what high enlightened people were among the
Jews! This David was a married man; he was a king, a soldier, and a
preacher; he was busy in temporal affairs, yet nevertheless he wrote
such an excellent surpassing book. The New Testament was written
also by men that were Jews, and the Apostles themselves were Jews:
God would signify thereby that we should adore his Word, we should
preciously esteem thereof, reverence, and love the same. We
Gentiles have no book that ruleth in the Church, therefore we are
not comparable to the Jews; from hence it is that St. Paul maketh a
very fine distinction or difference between Sarah and Hagar, and the
two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. Hagar was also a wife, but nothing
near like Sarah; therefore it is a great pride, presumption, and
wilfulness of the Pope, in that he, being but a human creature, will