The syndics ordered him to discontinue his sermons at St. Pierre's until further notice.[562]
[546] Annales de Boyne, ad annum.
[547] Calvin, Letter at the head of the Bible of 1535.
[548] Preface to the Bible of 1535.
[549] Olivetan took advantage of all the Hebrew commentaries and paraphrases contained in the Bible of Bomberg. (Venice, 1518-1526.) See the articles in the Revue de Strasbourg, by M. Reuss.
[550] Em. Pétavel, La Bible en France, pp. 106, 107.
[551] According to Olivetan, the Bible is the 'corbeille de mariage'—the casket containing the jewels and presents which the bridegroom sends to the bride.
[552] 'Viens avec tes tenaillés (torn with red-hot pincers), tes flétris, tes oreillés, tes démembrés.'
[553] Calvin placed two writings at the head of the volume: Une épître à tous empereurs, rois, princes, et peuples soumis à l'empire de Christ, and a Discours préliminaire, which was long at the head of the ancient Genevan Bibles.
[554] 'Idolotramenta.' Registres du Conseil du 28 Juin 1535.—Farellus Calvino.