Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

great difficulty in understanding. On the one
side there is not a word of yielding; on the
other not a word of consolation. It does not
seem to have occurred to Servetus, to his credit
be it said, to save himself by a false
retractation; nor does Farel believe it possible
to utter one word of comfort or hope till
Servetus has been brought to renounce those
doctrines which he held to be fatal. This
imparts to the one side the air of obstinacy, to
the other the aspect of severity. The
earnestness of the sixteenth century is, we
believe, the key to a scene that appears to us
extraordinary.
14. On the level or summit of Champel, says
Rilliet, and not at the spot called Champ du
Bourreau, should be placed the theater of
executions. The latter place was the cemetery
of the executed. (Relation, etc., p. 222, footnote.)
15. Servetus supplicated Christ as the "Son of the
Eternal Father," but he would not acknowledge
him as the "Eternal Son of the Father." In
short, he saw in the Incarnation, not "God in
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