Upon rewinding and carefully rewatching the book burning scene, my initial (startling) impression was wrong. The burning Bible did not open up and tempt Faust with the power of the devil. It was a different book. But how ghastly, how profoundly unsettling such a small textual change would have rendered unto to an entire metaphysics. What a disruption! What a bettor’s bet! Into the bargain, a new unexpected raising of the t stakes. God bet the devil not only the rights to Earth’s title and pink slip, but also heaven too!