On Benefits

Seneca, the favourite classic of the early fathers of the church and of the Middle Ages, whom Jerome, Tertullian, and Augustine speak of as Seneca noster, who was believed to have corresponded with St. Paul, and upon whom [Footnote: On the De Clementia, an odd subject for the man who burned Servetus alive for differing with him.] Calvin wrote a commentary, seems almost forgotten in modern times