On the other hand, many of Knox's contemporaries disagreed with his stance. In response to "The First Blast," John Aylmer, an exiled English Protestant, wrote then published "An Harborowe for Faithful and Trewe Subjectes Agaynst the Late Blowne Blaste, Concerninge the Government of Wemen" on 26 April 1559. While Knox believed that the Bible held absolute authority on everything, including politics, Alymer disagreed. He believed that the narratives in the Bible were not always God's way of explaining right and wrong but were sometimes historical expositions only. Aylmer also argued that what Knox called “monstrous” was actually just “uncommon.” This was portrayed by pointing out that although it was uncommon for a woman to give birth to twins, it was not monstrous.