Erasmus's resentment showed itself in the nickname Phallicus that he fastened on his antagonist.

From Basle Farel went to Montbeliard and Aigle, preaching fearlessly but so fiercely that his friend Oecolampadius warned him to remember rather to teach than to curse.

[Sidenote: 1528] After attending the disputation at Berne he evangelized western Switzerland.

His methods may be learned from his work at Valangin on August 15, 1530.

He attended a mass, but in the midst of it went up to the priest, tore the host forcibly from his hands, and said to the people: "This is not the God whom you worship: he is above in heaven, even in the majesty of the Father." In 1532 he went to Geneva.
Notwithstanding the fact that here, as often elsewhere, he narrowly escaped lynching, he made a great impression.