[497] The year began at Easter; its commencement on the 1st of January was not definitively settled until much later.
[498] ‘Suo Michaeli de Arando Episcopo Sancti Pauli in Delphinatu.’—Cornel. Agrippa, Epp. p. 835.
[499] ‘Insaniat mundus, et insultet adversus renascens Christi Evangelium.’—Tossanus Œcolampadio, July 26, 1526. Herzog, Œcolampade, ii. p. 286.
[500] ‘Gavisa est vehementissime tota Ecclesia sanctorum qui apud nos sunt, audientes fructum Verbi apud aulicos, itidem apud Galliam fere omnem.’—Cornel. Agripp. Epp. p. 829.
[501] ‘Scribe quid Gebennis agatur, aut scilicet Verbum ament?’ The authenticity of this letter is doubted by Bayle, but it appears to me to be established by arguments which are too long to be admitted here.
[502] ‘Omnes Galli, contubernales ac hospites mei... Latere cupiunt, et tamen pueris noti sunt.’—Capito to Zwingle, Nov. 20, 1521. Zwingl. Epp. i. p. 439.
[503] ‘Faber honorifice in Galliam revocatur.’—Erasmi Epp. p. 829.
[504] Isaiah xxxv. 10.
[505] ‘Nisi adsint qui fontes porrigant, quos reliquit nobis Spiritus sanctus.’—MS. in the Library of Geneva. Schmidt, Roussel, p. 188.
[506] ‘Faber Stapulensis hodie hinc discedens, Blesios petiit.’—Cornel. Agripp. Epp. p. 4848.