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John Calvin
# John Calvin (1509–1564) French-born Reformer, theologian, and exegete.
Short bio
# 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
1 listed
| 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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“For though men were a hundred times perfidious, yet God never changes, but remains unchangeable in his faithfulness; and we know that his covenant was not made to depend on the merits of men. Whatsoever, then, the people might be, yet it behooved God to contin…”
“Jeremiah, then, does not here plead his own private cause, but shews to his own nation what remedy there was for them in such a state of despair, even to have an immediate recourse to God, and on the one hand to consider their sins, and on the other to look to…”
“He begins by expressing his astonishment, How obscured is the gold! and the precious gold! for ktm, catam, is properly the best gold, though the word good,htvv ethub, is added to it. We may hence conclude that it generally denotes gold only. He mentions, then,…”