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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · prayers for the dead · heresy, orthodoxy, and schism · caroli controversy · arianism accusations
Usually: letter or document (1) · crisis of belief (1) · exhortation (1) · indignation (1)
In February 1537 from Geneva, Calvin warns Megander about Caroli’s teaching that prayer can aid the dead’s hastened rise, denounces his disruptive behavior, and argues for calling a council to unify doctrine.
[39] A pseudonyme which Calvin sometimes made use of in his Latin correspondence. Some how or other it has so happened that in the hurry of writing I omitted what by no means I had intended. It was to exhort you and the other brethren in a few words, but most heartily, to the cultivation of peace, for the preservation of which you ought all of you to strive the more earnestly as Satan watches intently for its overth…