For some unknown cause he was suspended soon afterwards, but was readmitted in the spring of 1500.

Two years later he went to Basle, where he completed his studies by taking the master's degree.

[Sidenote: 1506] While here he taught school for a while.

Theology apparently interested him little; his passion was for the humanities, and his idol was Erasmus.

Only in 1513 did he begin to learn Greek.
If, at twenty-two, before he had reached the canonical age, Zwingli took orders, and became parish priest at Glarus, it was less because of any deep religious interest than because he found in the clerical calling the best opportunity to cultivate his taste for letters.