[2] Jesus is made to apply it either to his disciples or to willing followers in [Matt. xvii, 17], where the implication seems to be that lack of faith alone prevents miraculous cures. So with ἀπιστία in [Matt. xiii, 58]. In the Epistles, a pagan as such is ἀπίστος—e.g., [1 Cor. vi, 6]. Here the Vulgate has infideles: in [Matt. xiii, 58], the word is incredulitatem. [↑]
[3] Cp. [Luke xii, 46]; [Tit. i, 15]; [Rev. xxi, 8]. [↑]
[4] In the prologue to the first print of the old (1196) Revelation of the Monk of Evesham, 1482. [↑]
[5] Bayle, Dictionnaire, art. Viret, Note D. [↑]
[6] Essais, liv. iii. ch. 12. Édit. Firmin-Didot, 1882, ii, 518. [↑]
[7] See F. T. Perrens, Les Libertins en France au xviie Siècle, 1896, Introd. § 11, for a good general view of the bearings of the word. It stood at times for simple independence of spirit, apart from religious freethinking. Thus Madame de Sevigné (Lettre à Mme. de Grignan, 28 juin, 1671) writes: “Je suis libertine, plus que vous.” [↑]
[8] Stähelin, Johannes Calvin, 1863, i, 383 sq.; Perrens as cited, pp. 5–6; Mosheim, Eccles. Hist., 13 Cent., part ii, ch. v, §§ 9–12, and notes; 14 Cent., part ii, ch. v, §§ 3–5; 16 Cent., § 3, part ii, ch. ii. §§ 38–42. [↑]
[9] A. Bossert, Calvin, 1906. p. 151. [↑]
[10] Burckhardt, Renaissance in Italy, Eng. tr. ed. 1892, p. 542, note. [↑]
[11] Answer to Sir T. More, Parker Soc. rep. 1850, pp. 53–54. [↑]