About Heretics - About Heretics

…He became a Greek lecturer at the local university, but lived in poverty and suffered from slander against the Calvinists. During that time, he published an easy-to-understand French translation of the Bible (1555) in parallel with his biblical and theological studies, and in 1553, following the burning of the heretic Servetus by Calvin, he published his edited work On Heretics (1554), which used ancient and modern documents to justify the wrongdoing of secular authorities in the execution of heretics, sparking a debate on tolerance. During the First French War of Religion in 1562, he published Admonitions to Troubled France (1562), in which he preached about the folly of war, which consumes its fellow men, and appealed to his country for the restoration of peace and national unity in France, based on his belief that the dignity of individual faith and conscience should not be violated. …

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…同地大学のギリシア語講師となったが生活は貧窮，またカルバン派の中傷に苦しめられた。その間，聖書･神学研究と並行してわかりやすい仏訳聖書を刊行(1555)したほか，53年カルバンによる異端者セルベトゥス焚刑事件にあたり，古今の文献を論拠に世俗権力による異端処刑の非を立証した編著《異端者について》(1554)を発表して寛容論争の口火を切った。62年第1回フランス宗教戦争に際しては，個人の信仰･良心は尊厳侵すべからずとする信念から同朋相喰む戦争の愚を説き，平和回復とフランスの国民的統一を祖国に訴える《悩めるフランスに勧める》(1562)を発表した。…

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