Manifestly the Mass is, of the two, much more on a level with the "offering" of St.Paul than with human sacrifices to Moloch! {66} In his reply Knox, as he states his own argument, altogether overlooked the _offering_ of St.Paul, which, as far as we understand, was the essence of his opponents' contention.

He said that "to pay _vows_ was never idolatry," but "the Mass from the original was and remained odious idolatry, therefore the facts were most unlike.

Secondly, I greatly doubt whether either James's commandment or Paul's obedience proceeded from the Holy Ghost," about which Knox was, apparently, better informed than these Apostles and the Church of Jerusalem.

Next, Paul was presently in danger from a mob, which had been falsely told that he took Greeks into the Temple.

Hence it was manifest "that God approved not that means of reconciliation." Obviously the danger of an Apostle from a misinformed mob is no sort of evidence to divine approval or disapproval of his behaviour.