. 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). urn to Augsburg when Protestantism was again inthe ascendant; and Strasburg would fain have hadhim back again. But nothing would induce him to leave the citywhich had shown him kindness when an exile andfugitive. And so, on August 30, 1563, he died atBern, and there he was buried. When one considersthe privations of his early life, the narrowness ofmeans with which he had to contend all his days, theconstant interr
. 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). urn to Augsburg when Protestantism was again inthe ascendant; and Strasburg would fain have hadhim back again. But nothing would induce him to leave the citywhich had shown him kindness when an exile andfugitive. And so, on August 30, 1563, he died atBern, and there he was buried. When one considersthe privations of his early life, the narrowness ofmeans with which he had to contend all his days, theconstant interruptions and changes which fdl to hislot, one cannot but wonder at the profundity of hislearning and the fecundity of his pen. He wroteCommentaries on ten books of the Bible ; Treatises 93 Bezas Portraits of Reformers upon the Commandments, Oaths, the German Wars,and a book of Common-Places. He translated alarge number of the Greek Fathers, and the eccle-siastical histories of Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomen,Theodoret, Evagrius, and Polybius, as also the Lifeof Constantine by Eusebius. Verily, there weregiants on the earth in those days —giants of industryand of 94
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