[367] Another minister of Zurich.
[368] At the request of the Protestants of Metz, Farel had left Neuchatel to go to preach the Reformed doctrine in that town. He received Calvin's letter at Strasbourg, where the Reformer joined him the year following.—See Hist. des Martyrs, liv. iii. p. 153; Bèze, Hist. Eccl. tom. iii. p. 432.
[369] This letter throws light on the first disagreements or differences between Calvin and Sebastian Castalio, or Castellio, occupied on the translation into French of the sacred Scriptures. Castalio evinced very little anxiety about elegance and purity of language in the work on which he was engaged. Thus he could not fail to encounter the severe criticism of the Reformer, who doubtless was charged in the name of the Seigneury with the revisal of the translation of the New Testament, and refused to give his approbation. It was not until some years afterwards, at Basle, that Sebastian Castalio published his work, under this title,—"The Bible, with Annotations on the Difficult Passages. 2 vols. in folio, Basle, 1555." This work has become so rare, that it is at present impossible to procure it, and to ascertain the justice of the criticism which it has occasioned. The celebrated Henry Etienne accused the author of speaking the language of the Gueux. Bayle has been less severe.—See Dict. Hist., Art. Castalion; and MM. Haag, La France Protestante, 6me part, p. 365.
[370] Printer of Geneva.
[371] This word is taken in a bad sense: to haunt the wine-cellars and the cabaret, or beer-shop.—See the Dictionnaire de l'Académie.
[372] See note 2, p. 292. Dismissed by the Seigneury of Berne from the Church of Orbe, Zebedee was on the point to become pastor of the Church of Nyon.
[373] Celio Secondo-Curione, among the most illustrious of the preachers of the Reformation in Italy. Born at Turin in 1503, he devoted himself successfully to the teaching of Luther's doctrine, and preached the Gospel in Piedmont, at Ferrara, and at Lucca, stole away by flight from the pursuit of the Inquisition, and took refuge in Switzerland with his celebrated countrymen, Ochino and Peter Martyr. The same year he was appointed Director of the College of Lausanne.—See M'Crie's History of the Reformation in Italy; and Jules Bonnet, Vie d'Olympia Morata, third edition Paris, 1856.
[374] Concerning ecclesiastical affairs. See pp. 345-347.
[375] The Seigneury of Berne put to sale this year the property of the churches, of the priories, and of the cloisters, and drew from them considerable sums, of which a portion ought to have been applied to the foundation of new cures, and in augmentation of the ministers' stipends.—See Ruchat, Hist. de la Réf. en Suisse, tom. v. pp. 201-203.
[376] The year 1542 was signalized by the establishment of the Inquisition in Italy, and by the dispersion of the Reformed communities established at Naples, at Lucca, and at Venice.—See M'Crie, Hist. of the Ref. in Italy, c. v. pp. 212-231.