"
"Will you call yourself just, when there is no one just? Read the
Book of Job, and you will see. And your belief is really too
eccentric to be counted to you for righteousness."
"Send him down in the cellar to Master Mats! Must one listen to such
nonsense! Away with him!"
More pointed to the door, and Bainham went out.
"Yes," said Wolsey, "what is there in front of us? Schisms,
sectarianism, struggles. If we only had an heir to the throne."
"We cannot get the King divorced."
"You yourself have spoken the word. There is no need for divorce,
because his marriage is null."
"Is it? How do you prove that?"
"From the third book of Moses, the twentieth and twenty-first
chapters: 'If any one taketh his brother's wife, it is evil.'"
"Yes, but in the fifth book of Moses, five and twentieth chapter,
fifth verse, it is commanded."
"What, in Christ's name, are you saying?"
"Certainly it is: 'If brothers dwell together, and one die without
children, his brother shall take his wife and raise up seed to his
brother."
"Damnation! This cursed book."
"Moreover: Abraham married his half-sister; Jacob married two
sisters: Moses' father married his aunt."
"That is the Bible, is it? Thank you! Then I prefer the Decretals
and the Councils. The Pope must dissolve the marriage.
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