they will perish, whether we like it or not. We know this, and we write it, yet only for present use, until the Lord reveals greater things.

JUAN DE VALDÉS

(Johannes Valdesius)

A Spanish Noble, legal consultant, and Secretary to the King of Naples. It is said that he brought the writings of Luther, Bucer, and the Anabaptists with him from Germany to Naples. From him, Bernardino Ochino is said to have absorbed his views against the accepted opinion on the Trinity. He flourished in the year 1542. Concerning him, the Ministers of the churches in agreement in Sarmatia A historical name for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Transylvania, in Book 1, Chapter 3 of On the False and True Knowledge of the One God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit original: "de falsa & vera unius Dei Patris, Filii & Spiritus Sancti cognitione", write the following: What should be said of Juan de Valdés, most distinguished in lineage and piety? Leaving us specimens of his erudition in public writings, he writes that he knows nothing else of God and his Son than that there is one most high God, the Father of Christ: and our only Lord Jesus Christ his son, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin: one and the same Spirit of them both.

• Dialogues between Charon and Mercury, printed in Italian.
• Pious and Learned Considerations.
• On several Psalms.
• On the Gospel of Matthew.
• On the Gospel of John.
• Commentary on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, 1556.
• A brief commentary, or a concise and familiar explanation, on the first epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians, very useful for all lovers of Christian piety. original: "Comentario breve, ò declaracion compendiosa, y familiar, sobre la primera epistola de san Pablo à los Corinthios, muy util para todos los amadores de la piedad Christiana" This book is prohibited in the Spanish Index Expurgatorius The list of books banned or censored by the Catholic Church, both with and without the author's name.

BERNARDINO OCHINO

(Bernardinus Ochinus)

From Siena, Italy. He was (as some have recorded) the confessor to the Supreme Roman Pontiff The Pope; and indeed, he was the General and head of the Capuchin Order, as Zacharias Boverius reports in the Annals of the Capuchins, as cited by Bzovius for the year 1542, paragraph 34. He left the monastery in the year 1542. Bzovius, in the place cited, says he left Italy because he had been summoned to Rome,