[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_ (+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 (+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] "Ma l'Escriptura di, e nos creire o deven."—_Nobla Leycon_, l. 19. "Regarde l'Escriptura del fin commenczamente."—Ib. l. 23. [477] Gilles, Léger; Muston, Monastier. [478] Vol. II. p. 583. [479] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 6. Choupard and Roset, MSS. CHAPTER VI. PLANS OF THE EMPEROR, THE DUKE OF SAVOY, AND THE BISHOP AGAINST GENEVA. (1530-1532.) Just when the Gospel was about to enter Geneva with Farel and Saunier, the bishop-prince was making new exertions to recover his power. A crisis was approaching: a decisive step must be taken. Which shall have supremacy in the church—the bulls of the pope or the Scriptures of God? Which shall have supremacy in the state—slavery or liberty? Great powers had determined to oppress this little city; but humble servants of God were about to enter it one after another, and planting there the standard of Christ, secure the victory to independence and the Gospel. [Sidenote: BELLEGARDE'S AUDIENCE WITH CHARLES.]