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ft904 The latter is Beza’s explanation, Vita Calv. in Annal., Opera, XXI.
134.
ft905 “Carmen obscoenum et lascivum, quo Salomo impudicos suos amores
descripserit.” Comp. Reg. du Conseil, Jan. 28, 1544, in Annal. 329.
ft906 Calvin, in his catechism, explains the descensus ad inferos to mean the
suffering of the “dolores mortis” (Acts 2:24) or “horribiles angustias”
on the cross in behalf of the elect. This unhistorical exposition passed
into the Heidelberg Catechism, Quaest. 44: “Christ, my Lord, by his
inexpressible anguish, pains, and terrors, which he suffered in his soul
on the cross and before, has redeemed me from the anguish and
torment of hell.” The true meaning of the clause is, that the descent
was an event which took place between the death and the resurrection
of Christ. Comp. 1 Pet. 3:19; 4:6; Eph. 4:9.
ft907 See Reg. du Conseil, Jan. 14, 1544, quoted in Annal. 328.
ft908 Extract from Reg. du Conseil, April 12, 1544, in Annal. 333.
ft909 May 31, Annal. 336.
ft910 This is the report of Beza: “ex urbe excedere jussus est;” but Castellio
seems to have remained in Geneva till July 14. See Reg. du Conseil, in
Annal, 340.
ft911 Trechsel, Antitrinitarier, I. 219; Stähelin, II. 304.
ft912 He wrote to Zanchi at Chiavenna, March 17, 1564: “Optime factum,
quod Basileae mortuus est Castellio.” Quoted by Trechsel, I. 214,
from the Simler Collection in Zürich.
ft913 De haereticis an sint persequendi, et omnino quomodo sit cum eis
agendum, doctorum virorum tum veterum tum recentiorum sententiae.
Liber hoc tam turbulento tempore pernecessarius. Magdeburgi, per
Georg. Rausch, 1554, mense martio, 173 pp. 8 0 . I copy the title of the
book (which I have not seen) from La France Prot., IV. 130. The
writer of this article and Baum attribute the book to Castellio, but
Schweizer, I. 315 sq., shows that he wrote only a part of it. Comp.
Buisson, l.c., I. 358 sqq., and II. 1 sqq.
ft914 “Conseil àla France désolée, auquel est montrée la cause de la guerre
présente et le remède qui y pourroit être mis, et principalement est
avisési on doit forcer les consciences.” The writer in La France Prot.,
IV. 135-138, gives large extracts from this exceedingly rare tract. See
also Buisson, II. 225 sqq.