Bucer rejects the Lutheran formula “Law and Gospel” as sophistical; the whole of Scripture is lex or, more precisely, torah, which he calls doctrina et vitae institutio, and in this sense (cf. Erasmus’s lex spiritualis and Wyclif’s lex Christi) the whole of Scripture is “teaching.” The text of Scripture becomes much more an “objective revelation” than is the case with Luther. Tropological exegesis, akin to that of Gerson and à Kempis, and inculcation of an Erasmian imitatio Christi, accordingly,