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191. Beza seems to date the conversion further back (to 1628 or 1627)
and traces it to the influence of Olivetan, and so also Henry and Merle
d’Aubigné (I. 635). Stähelin (I. 21) puts it forward to the beginning of
1533. Calvin spent the greater part of the year 1532 to 1533 at
Orleans. Op. xxi. 191.
ft414 Ep. 19 in Op. X. Part II. 27. Bonnet, I. 12. Herminjard, III. 106.
Lefranc, 109 sqq.
ft415 “Tuus ex animo.” Op. X. Part II. 24. Bonnet, Letters, I. 9-11.
Herminjard, III. 201, locates this letter in 1534, which is more likely
than 1532. The letter presupposes a previous acquaintance with Bucer.
This might be dated back with Kampschulte (I. 231) to the year 1528,
if Calvin were that unnamed “Noviodunensis juvenis” whom Bucer, in
a letter to Farel, dated May 1, 1528, mentions as having fled from
persecution at Orleans to Strassburg to study Greek and Hebrew; but
Bucer probably referred to Pierre Robert Olivetan, who was likewise
from Noyon, and a relative and friend of Calvin, and perhaps brought
Calvin into contact with Bucer. Herminjard, II. 132 (note 5),
conjectures that the young man was Froment. But Froment was a
native of Dauphiné, not of Noyon. Comp. Op. X. Part II. 1; xxi. 191.
ft416 Audin, following in the track of Bolsec, traces Calvin’s conversion to
wounded ambition, and thereby exposes, as Kampschulte justly
observes (I. 242), his utter ignorance and misconception of Calvin’s
character, whose only, ambition was to serve God.
ft417 “Je renonce le cresme, et retient mon Baptesme.” Colladon, in Op.
XXI. 53.
ft418 The value of the tonsure was differently estimated, but it was generally
excluded from the lower orders. Calvin says (Inst. IV. ch. 19, § 22):
“Some represent the clerical tonsure to be the first order of all, and
episcopacy the last; others exclude the tonsure, and place the
archiepiscopal office among the orders.” Peter the Lombard
distinguishes seven orders, corresponding to the seven gifts of the Holy
Spirit (Isa. 11:2, 3),—beadles, readers, exorcists, acolytes, subdeacons,
deacons, priests. He regards the episcopate, not as a separate ordo, but
only as a dignity with four grades,—patriarch, archbishop,
metropolitan, bishop. Several schoolmen and canonists reckon eight or
nine ordines, including bishops and archbishops. The Council of Trent