During his lifetime he was the most famous scholar in Europe and the first to achieve renown through the printed word. He published his own Greek edition of the New Testament (1516), followed by a Latin translation, and paved the way for the Reformation with his satires on the Church, including the Colloquia Familiaria (1518). However, he opposed the violence of the Protestant Reformation and condemned Luther in De Libero Arbitrio (1523).