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The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2357 to 2471, August 1530–March 1531. Desiderius Erasmus. Trans. Charles Fantazzi. Annotated by James M. Estes. Collected Works of Erasmus 17. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. xix + 392 pp. $135.

in the Paraphrases, not the Annotations. The most important annotation in this volume, to judge by length, is the note to Galatians 2:11 concerning the quarrel between Peter and Paul at Antioch, which takes up eight pages and which raises questions about the role and validity of dissimulation in the Christian tradition. Among his sources, Erasmus favors, as usual, Jerome over Augustine, and in this annotation he tends to validate the use of dissimulation in the service of the faith. Little did he know how this controversy would develop in subsequent decades in French vernacular writing in the wake of John Calvin’s intransigence toward French Protestant “Nicodemites.” Here as elsewhere, Faber is very thorough and precise when dealing with the patristic and Scholastic commentators with whom Erasmus is in dialogue. Overall, this edition and translation of Erasmus’s commentary on two of the Pauline Epistles fully meets the exacting standards of the CWE and carries on a worthy tradition of which Erasmus himself would be proud.