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ft600 The letter was written in French and translated into Latin by Beza in
his edition of Calvini Epistolae, Genevae, 1575, p. 280 (under the
wrong date of 1540). See Opera, XI. 188 sqq.; Herminjard, VII. 66-
73; Bonnet-Constable, I. 222-229. I have used Constable’s translation
after comparing it with the French original. The concluding part,
however, is only extant in Beza’s Latin version.
ft601 Probably the youngest of Féray’s pupils, a native of Normandy.
Herminjard, VII. 55, note 6.
ft602 The older son of M. de Richebourg.
ft603 “Charles et mon frèrè, avec ma femme et les autres se portoyent
bien.” This explains why Calvin did not hurry back to Strassburg earlier
than he did.
ft604 “Neque hanc philosophiam discimus in schola Christi, ut eam quam
nobis indidit humanitatem exuendo, ex hominibus lapides fiamus.”
This shows how far Calvin was from heathen stoicism.
ft605 Dyer, p. 113, miscalls them Artichokes, because, as he fancies, they
took “this plant for their device.”
ft606 “Es macht einen eigenthümlichen Eindruck,” says Kampschulte (I.
365), “Karl V. hier für den Sieg eines Mannes mithätig zu sehen,
dessen Wirksamkeit, wie kaum eine andere, dazu beigetragen hat, die
Grundlagen seiner Macht zu untergraben.”
ft607 Bernard wrote a letter to Calvin, Feb. 6, 1541 (Herminjard, VII. 23),
in which he says: “Veni ergo, venerande mi pater in Christo: noster es
perfecto. Te enim nobis donavit Dominus Deus. Suspirant etiam post
te omnes …Faxit Dominus Jesus, ut velox adventus tuus sit ad nos!
Vale, ecclesiaeque digneris succurrere nostrae. Alioqui requiret de
manu tua sanguinem nostrum Dominus Deus. Dedit enim te
speculatorem domui Israel quae apud nos est.” Calvin answered,
March 1, 1541, that he was very reluctant to return to Geneva, but
would obey the voice of the Church. Herminjard, VII. 38-40.
ft608 March 1, 1541 (from Ulm on his journey to Ratisbon): “Non aliter
respondeo quam quod semper solitus sum: Nullum esse locum sub
caelo quem magis reformidem, non quia oderim, sed quoniam tot
difficultates illic mihi propositas video, quibus superandis sentio me
longe esse imparem. Quoties superiorum temporum subit recordatio,
facere nequeo quin toto pectore exhorrescam, si cogar me iterum
antiquis illis certaminibus objicere. Si mihi cum ecclesia illa tantum