Calv. _Opp._ v. p. 654. Acts of Ratisbon. It is thought that the notes in which these remarks and others occur are Calvin’s because they are found in his French edition of the Acts, and not in the Latin and German editions. Internal evidence confirms this supposition, for his style and his mind are in them. Footnote 74: Calv. _Opp._ v. pp. 658, 659. Footnote 75: _Ibid._ p. 663. Footnote 76: Calv. _Opp._ v. p. 671. We are glad to see Calvin’s moderation acknowledged by Kampschulte, _J. Calvin_, i. p. 341. Footnote 77: Calv. _Opp._ v. pp. 680-684. Footnote 78: ‘Occasionem præterire nolui; sic elapsus sum.’—Calvin to Farel, July, 1541.—_Opp._ xi. p. 252. CHAPTER XXI. CALVIN’S RETURN TO GENEVA. (JULY TO SEPT. 1541.) Having turned his back on the diet, Calvin thought of nothing but Geneva. ‘The diet ended as I had predicted,’ he had written; ‘the whole scheme of pacification went out in smoke. As soon as Bucer returns we shall betake ourselves with all speed to Geneva, or, indeed, I shall set out alone without further delay.’ Bucer, in fact, was to accompany Calvin and to assist him with his counsel to see whether it would be right for him to remain in that town. But when he returned to Strasburg he was detained there and also detained his friend. ‘I have regretted a thousand times,’ says the latter, ‘that I did not set out for Basel immediately after my return from Ratisbon.’[79] In that Swiss town he was to obtain more particular information about the state of affairs on the shores of the Leman, and especially about the suit between Berne and Geneva, concerning the ‘Articulants’; a suit in which Basel had been appointed arbitrator. At Strasburg it was thought that Calvin ought not to settle in that disturbed town so long as this cause of trouble continued to exist. If Calvin was evidently more decided than he had hitherto been, the cause was not only what was taking place in Germany, but also what was passing at Geneva. To put the matter into legal shape, to set in broad daylight the feelings of respect for the reformer which now animated the people, and thus to deprive Calvin of every pretext for declining the call which was sent to him, the general Council had been assembled on May 1, and ‘had revoked the edict of expulsion of the ministers passed in 1538, and declared that they esteemed them servants of God, so that for the future Farel and Calvin, Saunier and the others might go in and out at Geneva at their pleasure.’[80] [Sidenote: Calvin’s Return To Geneva.]