"Idolon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stating the question. Lethington did not know, and Knox does not tell us in his "History" that he had himself, a week earlier, put the matter before Calvin in his own way. Even Lord James, he says to Calvin, though the Abdiel of godliness, "is afraid to overthrow that idol by violence"—idolum illud missalicum. {202} ...
— John Knox and the Reformation • Andrew Lang |
