Note 446 — Chapter V · THE WALDENSES APPEAR. (1526 to October 1532.)

Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 2.

[447] Leger, Hist. des Eglises Vaudoises, p. 3.

[448] 'Que Christ es la nostra vita, e verita, e paçs, e justitia, e pastor.' Confession de Foi des Vaudois.

[449] 'Enayma lo fum vai derant lo fuoc.'—L'Antichrist.

[450] 'Priva lo poble de l'espiritual e sacramental manjament.'—L'Antichrist.

[451] 'El eyra, e persec, e acaisonna, roba e mortifica li membre de Christ.'—Ibid.

[452] 'Lo Segnor Jesus occi aquest felon.'—Ibid.

[453] Letter from Œcolampadius, 13 Oct. 1530.

[454] Anno 1170.

[455] 'Suis omnibus venditis, officium apostolarum usurpavit.'—Stephanus de Barbone, a dominican monk of Lyons, in 1225.

[456] 'Aliqui enim dicunt quod duraverit a tempore Sylvestri, aliqui a tempore apostolorum.'—Reinerius, 1250, contra Waldenses, ch. iv.

[457] Scultet, ii. p. 294. Ruchat, ii. p. 320.

[458] Latin paper of the barbes, 15th question. Ruchat, ii. p. 324.

[459] 'Nisi per spiritum sanctum reparemur, nihil vel velimus vel agamus boni.'—Œcolampadii Confessio, art. 1.

[460] See the histories of Léger, Perrin, Muston, Monastier, &c.

[461] Ancillon.

[462] Choupard MSS. Léger, 2me partie, p. 7, etc. Monastier, i. pp. 167, 201. Kirchhofer, Farel's Leben, p. 153.

[463] Letter of 26 July 1532. Choupard MSS.

[464] Gilles, p. 40. Monastier, i. p. 201. We learn from the Apologie du translateur at the beginning of Olivetan's Bible (1535) that Olivetan did not go into the valleys as some have believed; he speaks of two deputies only under the pseudonyms of Hilerme Cusemeth (Guillaume Farel) and Antoine Almeutes ([Greek: almeutês], salter, Saunier). As for the third, whom he calls Cephas Chlorotes, if he addressed the Apologie to him also, it was not because he had been to Angrogne, but because he had joined the other two in asking him to undertake that edition of the Bible. This Cephas Chlorotes is evidently Peter Viret ([Greek: chlôros], virens).

[465] 'Las festas et las vigilias de li sanet, e l'aiga laqual dison benieta, &c.'

[466] Léger, Confession de Foi des Vaudois, p. 23, verso; Traité de l'Antichrist, p. 75.

[467] Léger, Briève Confession de Foi (1532), p. 95.

[468] Léger, Briève Confession, p. 95, verso.

[469] Ibid.

[470] Gilles, History of the Churches of Piedmont, p. 30.

[471] Léger, Hist. des Eglises Vaudoises, p. 35. Ezra, x.; Nehemiah, ix. x.

[472] This Briève Confession is in the library of the University of Cambridge. Léger, p. 95; Muston, Hist. des Vaudois, &c.

[473] Ben ha mil e cent anez compli entierament; line 6.

[474] See the researches into the Cambridge MSS. and the German works of Dieckhoff and Zezschwitz. The latter author is of opinion that the Waldensian Catechism, the Antichrist, and other writings, belong to the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Catechisms of the Waldenses and Bohemian Brethren (in German), Erlangen, 1863.

[475] Olivetan's Bible: Apologie du translateur.

[476]

[477] Gilles, Léger; Muston, Monastier.

[478] Vol. II. p. 583.

[479] Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 6. Choupard and Roset, MSS.