John Calvin's Defense of Bible Translation

When John Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, in 1535, he met a group of French reformers engaged in producing the first Protestant translation of the Bible in French. He was asked to write a preface and eventually wrote two, one in Latin and the second in French. 

The Latin preface is his first writing in support of Bible translation. He is more impassioned and personal in his tone than in his second preface, written in French. Unfortunately, this work was not republished in later editions of the Bible and has largely been forgotten. 

I have provided an overview of this work in hopes that it encourages translators and lovers of God's Word in translation today as it did at that time:

https://aaronandsusanshryock.com/when-john-calvin-went-public/