Word of God, and therefore stands in close analogy to God’s speech in creation. Luther draws this out dramatically in his description of the fall. When he describes the fall in his Lectures on Genesis he describes it as a struggle over language. Whose speech will Adam and Eve believe? Will it be the speech of God or the speech of the serpent? He says, “Moses expresses himself very carefully and says: ‘the serpent said.’ That is, with a word the serpent attacks the Word. The Word which the Lord spoke