And all this is made clear also in the New Testament concerning women and virgins and other holy women who have by faith led nations and kingdoms away from the worship of idols to the Christian religion. Wherefore in many vituperations that we read against women, the word woman is used to mean the lust of the flesh. Other again have propounded other reasons why there are more superstitious women found than men. He that is quick to believe is light-minded, and shall be diminished. I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon than to keep house with a wicked woman.
All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.
And to this may be added that, as they are very impressionable, they act accordingly. There are also others who bring forward yet other reasons, of which preachers should be very careful how they make use. Therefore preachers should always say as much praise of them as possible. But the natural reason is that she is more carnal than a man, as is clear from her many carnal abominations. And it should be noted that there was a defect in the formation of the first woman, since she was formed from a bent rib, that is, a rib of the breast, which is bent as it were in a contrary direction to a man.