[_Fr. orig. autogr.--Library of Geneva._ Vol. 107, _a_.]
[404] See vol. i. pp. 403, 409. Settled at Bâle, Castalio had just
published his Latin version of the Holy Scriptures, which being
judged with excessive severity by the Reformed Divines, drew on him
numerous enmities.--_Bibla Sacra Latina_, Basil, 1551.
[405] The history of M. de Falais, after his rupture with Calvin,
is enveloped in much obscurity. He left Geneva in order to settle
at Berne, lost his wife in 1557, and contracted a second marriage.
We know neither the date nor the place of his death. Is it true, as
Bayle affirms, that this seigneur, chagrined by the spectacle of
the divisions which he had witnessed at Geneva, at last returned to
the Catholic church? We are rather inclined to believe, from the
testimonies of Calvin and Beza, indirectly confirmed by the silence
of the Brabançon historians, that, though differing on some points
of Calvinistic theology, the great-grand-son of Philip of Burgundy
did not abjure the tenets for which he had sacrificed his fortune
and his country. See Bayle, _Dict., Art._ Philip of Burgundy, remark
G; Calvin, _Comment._ on the 1st Epistle of Saint Paul to the
Corinthians, dedication to the Marquis of Vico, 24th January 1556;
and the preface of Beza to the _Commentary_ on Joshua.