“The one depicting our Saviour holding the globe in his hand, surmounted by the sign of the cross, belongs to this type of painting. Indeed, it is to him that the words of Isaiah apply: ‘Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and in his palm weighed the heavens? Who holds up with three fingers the whole mass of the earth?’ And what Paul says: ‘God was pleased to reconcile all things through him and in him, both on earth and in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his Cross. And then: Our Saviour wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is only one God, and one mediator between God and men, Jesus Christ, a man himself, who gave himself for the redemption of all.'”

“Ad huiusmodi picturas pertinet quod Salvator noster pingatur man tenens orbem terrarum, superposito crucis signo. Ipsi enim competit quod Esaias ait: ‘Quis mensus est pugillo aquas et coelos palmo ponderavit? Quis appendit tribus digitis molem terrae?’ Et illud Pauli: ‘per eum complacuit reconciliare omnia in ipsum, pacificans per sanginem crucis eius, sive quae in terris, sive quae in coelis.’ Et alibi: ‘Salvator noster omnes homines vult salvos fieri et ad agnitionem veritatis venire. Unus enim Deus, unus mediator Dei et hominum, homo Chrisus Iesus, qui dedit redemtionem semetipsum pro omnibus.'”