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Anger and fear fused in John.
Ever since the fourth century a controversy had raged over the person of Christ.
Those who refused to believe that He was the eternal Son of God were termed Arianists.
Peter Caroli had come to Geneva, saying that he had been a bishop of the Church of Rome and had been persecuted in Paris for his Reformed faith.
He asked to be appointed a preacher.
But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.
So John had refused to agree to his appointment as a preacher, and now Caroli sought revenge.

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