[53] Simon Grynée, a learned theologian and professor of the _belles
lettres_, the friend of Erasmus and of Melanchthon, rector of the
Academy of Basle. His intercourse with Calvin dates from the epoch
of the first visit of the Reformer to that town, (1535, 1536.) They
became more intimate when Calvin, banished from Geneva, returned
anew to seek an asylum at Basle, and was hospitably entertained
in the house of Grynée, to whom he dedicated, in testimony of his
remembrance, his Commentary on the Epistle of St. Paul to the
Romans, (18th October 1539.) Two years afterwards, Simon Grynée died
of the plague. His nephew, James Grynée, discharged the office of
Dean of the Church of Basle, and was the correspondent and friend of
Théodor de Bèze.
The calumnious accusations directed by Caroli against the doctrine
of Farel and of Calvin having spread at Basle, the latter considered
it his duty, in a letter to Grynée, to expose the whole history of
the controversy with Caroli, in order to oppose the entire calumny.
See the two letters of Grynée to Calvin.--_Simonis Grynæi Epistolæ._
Edit. de Streuber. Basle, 1847, pp. 50-53.
The nature of the controversy between Calvin and Caroli clearly
laid open--Synod of Lausanne--Caroli is condemned, and the
teaching of Calvin and Farel solemnly approved.