But when at last Luther read the little book on Hus’s views, he was bowled over. It too set forth this most basic idea that Christ alone was the head of the church, and it took the pope to task for being unable to declare this unequivocally. And Hus had said that unless his accusers could clearly show him where he had erred from Scripture, he would not recant. For these things, Jan Hus had been condemned and burned at the stake. Luther was quite flabbergasted. “We are all Hussites without knowing it!” he said.*22
