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John Calvin
# John Calvin (1509–1564) French-born Reformer, theologian, and exegete.
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# John Calvin (1509–1564) French-born Reformer, theologian, and exegete. Primary systematic-theology voice of the Reformed tradition; his *Institutes of the Christian Religion* (1536, revised 1559) and his **Commentaries** on most books of the Bible shaped Protestant biblical interpretation for five centuries.
Notable works
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| Title | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Commentaries (Calvin Translation Society edition) | 1843 | Calvin wrote commentaries on most of the Bible. The Calvin Translation Society edition (1843–1855), translated into English by John King, John Owen, William Pringle, Thomas Myers, and others, is the authoritative PD text. MannaFest uses this edition as ingested from CCEL plain-text. |
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516 quotes across 38 books
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“And to encourage them the more to pursue this study, he reminds them of their calling; as though he had said, "God favored you with no common grace when He called you into his kingdom; it now remains that you have your eyes fixed on Christ as your leader in th…”
“Who was, or is faithful, etc. This is a commendation of the apostleship of Christ, in order that the faithful may securely acquiesce in him; and he commends it on two grounds, because the Father has set him to be over us as our teacher, and because Christ hims…”
“By saying Lest we be disappointed of the promise left us, he intimates that no one comes short of it except he who by rejecting grace has first renounced the promise; for God is so far from repenting to do us good that he ceases not to bestow his gifts except …”
“It is such that faith is not to be separated from the word, and that the word separated from faith can confer no good; not indeed that the efficacy or power of the word depends on us; for were the whole world false, he who cannot lie would still never cease to…”
“To this I answer, that to us mentioned here is not set in opposition to what is false, but only to what is typical; as we find in John 1:17, "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." Then the old tabernacle was not the empty inven…”