Thus the bishop set up a quarantine to separate Geneva from Christendom; but it was precisely at this epoch that the obscure city of the Allobroges came into communication with the world, and spread abroad the light which it had received. While the papacy ceased to utter its oracles there, and had in its service none but the dumb, the Word of God made its loud and mighty voice heard through the mouths of the Reformers. Such was the result of the discussion. 'In that controversy,' says a modern historian who does not belong to the Reform, 'the catholics were defeated by the reformers.'[545] [531] 'Nollet alium respondere quam Bernardum.'—Farel to Calvin, p. 77.—Jeanne de Jussie, _Commencement de l'Hérésie dans Genève_, p. 125.—Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, pp. 139, 140. [532] Jeanne de Jussie, _Commencement de l'Hérésie dans Genève_, p. 80. [533] 'Frustra hominem conari sine gratia, nec ordiri, nec prosequi, nec perseverare posse.'—Farel to Calvin, _Epist. Calv._, p. 77. [534] Jeanne de Jussie, _Commencement de l'Hérésie dans Genève_, p. 80. [535] _Ibid._ pp. 80, 81. [536] 'Succedere matrem Filio.'—Farel to Calvin. [537] 'Partem noctis impendit in annotandis rationibus quibus posset missa ferri.'—_Ibid._ [538] Hominem, memoria labantem, adjuvabamus, ut sua formaret argumenta.'—Farel to Calvin, _Epist. Calv._ [539] 'Juratissimi hostes.'—Farel to Calvin, _Epist. Calv._ [540] 'Cum juvenem quem ut tironem Carolus reputat.'—_Ibid._ [541] 'Cum Viretus tam aperte dissolveret omnia.'—_Ibid._ [542] 'Cœpit, insani more, vociferari longum ba, ba, ba.'—Farel to Calvin, _Epist. Calv._ [543] 'Humana et impia esse quæ divina sanctissimaque arbitrabantur.'— _Ibid._ [544] Archives de Genève.—Pièces historiques, No. 1125. [545] Mignet, _Réforme à Genève_, p. 66. CHAPTER V. TRIUMPH OF THE WORD OF GOD, BOTH WRITTEN AND SPOKEN. (JUNE TO AUGUST 1535.) Rome had set up, beside the Bible and even above it, the word and the traditions of men. The Reformation demanded that the Holy Scriptures should be read by all and preached from the pulpits. The written Word and oral teaching were to displace that pretended infallible chair, which alone was authorized (they said) to set forth the will of God. [Sidenote: THE FRENCH BIBLE PRINTED.] One fact of great importance was being accomplished at this time. The discussion maintained at Geneva by Farel, Bernard, Chapuis, and Caroli was but a musketry skirmish; but at a little distance from that city—at Neuchâtel—thanks to the labors of Calvin and Olivetan, a tradesman, a Picard like themselves, was preparing that great artillery, whose formidable volleys were to break down the walls of error, on the ruins of which a divine hand was to establish the truth of Jesus Christ.