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Title: Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: McCrie, Charles Greig, 1836-1910 Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605
Subjects: Reformation Reformers Reformers
Publisher: London Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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^73 Francis Vatable (Franciscus Vatablus) ONE of the learned Frenchmen brought toParis under the auspices and at the expenseof the royal founder of the TrilingualCollege was Francis Vatable. Born towardsthe close of the fifteenth century, and anative of the old province of Picardy, in the north ofFrance, Vatable entered upon public life as pastor ofa small town in Valois. His fame as a Hebraist,however, pointed him out to Francis I. and WiUiamBude as worthy of the honour of being the firstprofessor of Hebrew in the Royal College. When Vatable and his colleagues were appointedthe building was not erected, but the professorshipswere liberally endowed, and instruction was given tocourtiers, noblemen, and students in Hebrew, Greek,Mathematics, Philosophy, and Medicine. Besidestheir ordinary scholastic work the royal professors 174
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FRANCIS VATABLE. Francis Vatable contributed indirectly to the improvement of the oldliterary institutions in the capital, and to the diffusionof the new learning throughout Europe. The spreadof the new opinions was regarded with suspicion bythe clergy, who sought to arrest it by every means intheir power. The study of the Scriptures in theiroriginal languages was specially distasteful to thedivines of the Sorbonne, and they made a formalcomplaint on the subject to Parliament against theteachers of the Royal College, in which Vatable wasnamed as explaining the Old Testament from theoriginal Hebrew. When expressly prohibited fromdeviating in the smallest particular from the Vulgatetranslation, Vatable and his associates adopted theplan of dictating criticisms on books and passages ofScripture to their students in private. The exposi-tions were received with all the greater avidity andpreserved all the more carefully on that account. Inthe judgment of those competent to form an opinion,

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