In this week’s installment from Off the Record with Martin Luther, Luther comments on the wonder of God’s creation of human beings:

2578 He took his infant son Martin on his lap, and said: Oh, to think that God can put such a fine black-haired angel in such a piece of flesh from a stinking sack! It seems to me like taking a pancake and sticking an angel in it. But it is a real art to make a nose, mouth, hands and feet out of of a piece of flesh in a mother’s womb. (p. 265)