Martin Luther said to P. Melanchthon, when the latter showed him the nativity of Cicero from the stars: “Esau and Jacob were born of the same father and mother, at the same time, and under the same planets, but their nature was wholly different. You would persuade me that astrology is a true science!” (Cited by Schaff, History of the Christian Church [Grand Rapids: Wm. Eerdmans, 1960], vol. 6, p. 470.)37