Notes
Notes
Words in brackets are inserted by the translator to explain the text or to quote authorities.
1. The gymnasium was really only an important part of the Carolinum. The sick were also visited and other pastoral duties were performed.
2. Pages 70 and 71. Fulda's opinion is that Zwingli did not intend to contrast the Latin with the Greek scholars, but the Vulgate with the original text.
3. Page 78. Zwingli, in his peculiar way, strikes at a leading cause of dyspepsia, with its train of physical, social, and moral disorders. Epicures still exist, even among professing Christians. How sinful it is to boast of how much of a dainty dish one can eat! Ecclesiasticus 37: 29-31.
4. Page 83. Massilia, now Marseilles, as a Greek colony had strict laws. Valerius Maximus II., 6, hints at Zwingli's thought.—Fulda.
5. Page 92. The one who swam from the Capitol was Pontius Cominius, as Plutarch says in volume one, page 115. A reference to Smith's Classical Dictionary, page 214, will show that Zwingli was correct in regard to Cloelia's act.
6. Page 97. Gerald Meyer descended from a noble family and Zwingli was concerned in preserving him from the corrupt habits of the nobility of that time, by teaching him how to be noble at heart.