; just as has
happened to many with these little words, _Petros_ and
_Petra_[52] in Matthew xvi [Matt. 16:18].

It would have been something less of a lie and a blasphemy for
you to have said that Aaron was a type of Christ and also of St.
Peter. But now you just scream with all your might that Aaron was
not a type of Christ, but of St. Peter, and wantonly you strike
St. Paul in the face. And in order that nothing may be lacking in
this perfect piece of folly, you go on to say: Moses was a type
of Christ. And you say this not only without any cause or
indication in the Scriptures--just as if you were more than God,
and everything which you emit must be taken for Gospel--but
contrary to all the Scriptures, which make Moses a type of the
Law, as St. Paul does in II. Corinthians iii. [2 Cor. 3:7] It is
not necessary to go into this just now, else you might strike him
on the jaw again in your wantonness and insolence. Such venom you
have imbibed from that man Emser's heretical and blasphemous
output,[53] which I will give the answer it deserves when Sir
Knight Eck comes along with his flourish.[54] You cannot carry it
off in that way, my dear Romanists. I cannot prevent it by force,
but you shall not bring any Scripture in support of it. Praise
God, I am not quite ready to bite the dust.

[Sidenote: Types of the Apostles]

Now it is clear, I take it, that the third argument of his
Romanist is rank heresy and blasphemy, for it flatly contradicts
God the Holy Ghost and makes Him a liar, and utterly demolishes
St. Paul. For since Aaron is a type of Christ, he cannot be a
type of St. Peter. For what the Scriptures ascribe to Christ must
not be ascribed to any other, so that the Scriptures may ever
have one simple, direct, indisputable meaning, on which our faith
may rest without wavering [Exod. 28:17 ff.]. This I will grant,
that Peter is one of the twelve precious stones in the
breastplate of Aaron, whereby there may be signified that the
twelve Apostles, chosen in Christ, and known from all eternity,
are the highest and most precious jewels in Christendom, but I
can never allow Peter to become Aaron. Again, I will admit that
St. Peter is one of the twelve lions that stood beside Solomon's
great throne [1 Kings 10:19], but Christ must remain for me the
one King Solomon. I will let the twelve Apostles be the twelve
wells of water in the wilderness of Elim [Exod. 15:27], on this
condition, however, that the bright cloud an