Monday, December 6, 2010

Bullinger’s Importance for the English Reformation

Bullinger’s commentaries began appearing in English in the 1530’s. An extant letter from this period by Nicolas Eliot refers to them. This undated letter to Bullinger from Bullinger’s English friend and pupil expresses the following compliments:

“Not only the church of Zurich, but other churches which are in Christ, bear witness to the skill, and purity, and simplicity of faith, with which you have expounded the whole Bible, and especially the epistles of St. Paul. And how great weight all persons attribute to your commentaries, how greedily they embrace and admire them, (to pass over numerous other arguments) the booksellers are most ample witnesses, whom by the sale of your writings alone, from being more destitute than Irus and Codrus, you see suddenly becoming as rich as Croesus. May God therefore give you the disposition to publish all your writings as speedily a spossible, whereby you will not only fill the coffers of the booksellers, but will gain over very many souls to Christ, and adorn his church with more previous jewels.”

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