13 Facts About Jacob Vernes

Jacob Vernes was a Genevan theologian and Protestant pastor in Geneva, famous for his correspondence with Voltaire and Rousseau.

Jacob Vernes was a wealthy man, well-mannered and cultivated, and had many friends.

Jacob Vernes married Marie-Francoise Clarence from Puylaurens, but she died less than a year later.

Jacob Vernes collaborated with his friend Antoine-Jacques Roustan in writing a History of Geneva, which remained in manuscript form.

Jacob Vernes wrote and published many other books on religious subjects.

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Jacob Vernes shared with some of his contemporaries the view that religion should not be considered only through cold reason but through emotion.

Jacob Vernes was ambiguous on some subjects, for example writing that the Bible contained evidence both for and against the doctrine of eternal punishment.

Jacob Vernes was said to have held Socinianist or Arian views, with unorthodox opinions on the nature of Christ, and these were said to be reflected in his writings.

Jacob Vernes became a close friend of Voltaire, who called him his "dear priest" and he often visited Voltaire at Ferney.

However, in his book Confidence Philosophique, written as a novel, Jacob Vernes attacked Voltaire and the principles of Encyclopedistes.

At first, Jacob Vernes was a friend of Rousseau, with whom he corresponded.

Jacob Vernes asked Rousseau as a friend to obtain some sort of retraction from d'Alembert, but Rousseau had to say that he was not on close terms with d'Alembert, so was unable to do so.

Later, Jacob Vernes attacked Rousseau for the views he expressed in the Confession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar in the last section of Emile: or, On Education.