The ungodly, when they rise up to destroy us, may not openly break forth into such daring presumption as to maintain it to be impossible for us to derive any …
Luther, Calvin, Augustine…Onan
Martin Luther: Onan must have been a malicious and incorrigible scoundrel. This is a most disgraceful sin. It is far more atrocious than incest or adultery. We call it unchastity, …
Calvin: Is Levirate Marriage Grounded in Natural Law?
Calvin, on Judah’s command to Onan, his son, to go into his brother’s wife. “Go in unto thy brother’s wife.” Although no law had hitherto been prescribed concerning brother’s marriages, …
Expository Thoughts on Genesis 48
Now it came about after these things that Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is sick.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him. 2When it was told …
Alienated from Egypt
Genesis 48:3, “And Jacob said unto Joseph.” Calvin’s comments: The design of the holy man was to withdraw his son from the wealth and honors of Egypt, and to reunite …
Resting Secure Before God
“If we now inquire in what way the conscience can be quieted as in the view of God, we shall find that the only way is by having righteousness bestowed …
To Claim a Particle
“Thus, indeed, it is: we never truly glory in him until we have utterly discarded our own glory. It must, therefore, be regarded as a universal proposition, that whoso glories …
Justification Defined
“Thus we simply explain justification to be an acceptance, by which God receives us into his favor, and esteems us as a righteous person and we say that it consists …
Repentance and the Grace of God
Moreover, that repentance is a special gift of God, I trust is too well understood from the above doctrine to require any lengthened discourse. Hence the Church extols the goodness …
Repentance is Lifelong
Moreover, as hatred of sin, which is the beginning of repentance, first gives us access to the knowledge of Christ, who manifests himself to none but miserable and afflicted sinners, …