“box score.” It was a kind of “word study” method. The number of times a word occurs in a treatise is supposed to be of decisive import for its interpretation. Luther, however, was not at all persuaded or moved by such methods. The epigraph over this chapter leaves little doubt. Numbers do not and cannot settle the matter of powers of the will. If there were only one passage, one text against free choice, that single occurrence would be decisive. Characterizing Erasmus’ method, Luther says: [A]fter