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Though Servetus was but a youth of nineteen, a foreigner
and a Catholic, and Oecolampadius was far more than twice
his age, a distinguished man busy with important affairs,
yet he received Servetus for some time patiently, and though
scandalized by the views he expressed tried to convince him
of his errors. Before long he found Servetus so conceited,
so obstinate in his opinions, and so much more bent on pressing
his own views than upon humbly seeking to learn the truth,
that he lost patience; and when Servetus complained because
Oecolampadius would no longer listen to him, the latter wrote
in reply, “I have more reason for complaint than you.
You thrust yourself upon me as if I had nothing to do but
answer your questions.” Servetus therefore, after having
failed to get an interview with Erasmus, who, was then living
at Basel, next went to Strassburg to see what he might accomplish
with the reformers there.
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