(1486-1543), a celebrated opponent of Luther. When he was trying to confuse Luther with quotations from the church fathers and councils, Luther quoted history and Scripture and finally said, "You run away from the Bible like the devil from the Cross." Eck at last made Luther declare that under certain circumstances it might be right to disobey the pope and council. Eck then went to Rome in 1520 and returned with a papal bull against Luther, in attempting to publish which he met with violent opposition. In 1530, while at the diet of Augsburg, he made the remarkable admission that he could confute the Augsburg Confession by the fathers but not by the Scriptures.