the dore.
          Now this he woteth well, yt thoughe some woordes 
     spoken by the mouthe of Christ written in scripture, be to 
     be vnderstanden only by way of a similitude or an 
     allegory: it foloweth not therupõ that of necessitye euerye 
     like woorde of Christ in other places was none other but 
     an allegory.

     More is saying that Frith understands the whole of 
Scripture to be continuous, uniform, and homogeneous space, 
exactly as in the new painting of the time. The new 
homogeneity of the printed page seemed to inspire a subliminal 
faith in the validity of the printed Bible as bypassing the 
traditional oral authority of the Church, on one hand, and the 
need for rational critical scholarship on the other. It was as if 
print, uniform and repeatable commodity that it was, had the