Visits were not the only troubles that disturbed Calvin's solitude. His incognito had hardly ceased before he was attacked by anxieties from every quarter. The discords which broke out in France and Switzerland filled him with sorrow. 'I exhort you with all my soul, you and the brethren, to keep the peace,' he wrote to Fabri. 'In order to maintain it, let us make all the greater efforts, the more Satan endeavours to destroy it. I have been filled with indignation at hearing of the new troubles stirred up by a man from whom I should have suspected nothing of the sort. He has vomited the poison with which he was swollen during a long period of dissimulation; and after darting his sting, he has run away like a viper.' Was this man Caroli?—I cannot say. [Sidenote: TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE.] In his retirement on the Wartburg, Luther had translated the New Testament. Calvin engaged in a similar task at Basle. On March 27, 1534, a translation was published by Pierre de Wingle at Neuchâtel: it was a small folio, printed in double columns, and was from the pen of Lefèvre of Etaples, but had undergone a revision with regard to certain expressions which still retained a Romish colouring. It would appear that this edition was suppressed, either because it had been made without resorting to the original texts, or because Wingle himself was dissatisfied with it.[329] He was soon to publish a more perfect version, in which Calvin assisted while at Basle. We shall have occasion to speak of this in connection with Calvin's cousin, Olivetan, the principal translator. Another work—which was to be the great work of his life—soon occupied the young reformer. [290] Schmidt, _Jean Sturm_, ch. iii. [291] Calvin to Bucer, 150 et. 1541. [292] 'Matthias qui solus adhuc populum habet.'—Bucerus Blauerero, 18th Jan. 1534. [293] Rœrich, _Reform in Elsass_, i. p. 133. [294] _Christliche Verantwortung._ [295] Calvini _Opp._ [296] Fueslin, Beyträge, p. 196. Lehr, _Matth. Zell._ p. 67. [297] 'Quæ furit sese amando,—Etsi amat (ut nos omnes) sua impensius.' See Rœhrich, _Mittheilungen_, iii. p. 132. [298] +Gunaikokratoumenos+.—Bucerus Blaurero, 16 Nov. 1533. [299] 'Ad opera uxor eum detrudit.'—Ibid. Jan. 1534. [300] Letter to Farel, dated Strasburg, May 19, 1539. [301] Letter to Bucer, October 15, 1541. [302] Calvin to Du Tillet, _Lettres Françaises_, i. pp. 4, 54. See also the _Correspondence_ published for the first time by M. Crottet, p. 25. [303] Flor. Rémond, _Hist. Hérés._ ii. p. 272. [304] Calvin, _Lettres Françaises_, i. p. 272. [305] 'Quiete diu negata fruerer.'—Calvin, _Præf. in Psalm._ [306] 'Cum Calvinus a Bucero ad Erasmum adductus esset.'—Flor. Rémond, _Hist. Hérés._ ii. p. 251. [307] 'In causam ecclesiæ tranquillandæ.'—Paulus papa Erasmo; Erasmi _Ep._ p. 1539. [308] 'Ad novos errores ex multorum animis abscindendos.'—Ibid. [309] 'De intricatis aliquot religionis capitibus sermonem cum ipso contulit.'—Flor. Rémond, _Hist. Hérés._ ii. p. 251.