Letters of John Calvin, Volume I

Jean Calvin · c. 1540s–1564 (letters collected here; selection dating over Calvin’s lifetime; compiled in the 16th c. by Beza/Jonvillers) primary

passage 84 of 354 · LETTER PAGE > Letter of consolation and advice addressed to the Church at (29/71)

in brief

This passage is the repeated concluding line from the prior letter section, restating Calvin’s complaint that opponents “call me to a charge” of annoyance and difficulty “in vain.”

those who have set this proposal afloat, had rather set some other stone a-rolling; for they call me to a charge of great annoyance and difficulty, and that in vain.

[121] Is this John Le Comte, minister of Grauson, or Beat Comte, a minister of Lausanne, who at a later period devoted himself to medicine, and distinguished himself by his devotedness to the care of those who were affected with the plague in that town? (See Ruchat, tom. v. p. 277.) We incline rather to this last conjecture.

[122] Genan, an unknown personage.

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Letters of John Calvin, Volume I · Jean Calvin · 1540–1564