It is significant that this section disappeared from the Margarita in the following editions; but this disappearence is easily understood when we recall the fact that Gregory Reysch, its author, having become one of the Papal Commission to judge Reuchlin in his quarrel with the Dominicans, thought it prudent to side with the latter, and therefore, doubtless, considered it wise to suppress all evidence of Reuchlin's influence upon his beliefs.

All the other editions of the Margarita in my possession are content with teaching, under the head of the Alphabet, that the Hebrew letters were invented by Adam.

On Luther's view of the words "God said," see Farrar, Language and Languages.

For a most valuable statement regarding the clashing opinions at the Reformation, see Max Muller, as above, lecture iv, p.132.For the prevailing view among the Reformers, see Calovius, vol.i, p.

484, and Thulock, The Doctrine of Inspiration, in Theolog.