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181 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 33.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , as Calvin says, “nothing happens by accident, or that has not been foreseen.” It brings before our minds “the sorrow of Divine love over the sins of man,” in the words …
182 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 45.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… and Calvin have remarked on the circumstance that men’s universal sinfulness, which formerly had been the cause of the judgment of the flood, should now …
183 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 80.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ,—as Calvin remarks, not from doubt or disbelief, but in gladness and wonder.The expression “I will make My covenant” ( Genesis 17:2 ) is quite different from that …
184 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 108.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… and Calvin understood it.
185 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 164.7 (Alfred Edersheim)
… says Calvin, not only to express his own personal faith and hope, but his confidence for his descendants. Quite the oldest Jewish commentary, or rather paraphrase …
186 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 68.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , as Calvin rightly remarks, how vain and false had been the worship of those who were now so powerless to help. That was also the night of Israel’s birth as a nation …
187 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 69.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… . As Calvin aptly writes: “In all those times of adversity the people could never have forgotten the promised redemption. For if, in their communings, the oath …
188 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 92.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… .” As Calvin rightly observes, “This designation was not due to the piety or holiness of the people, but because God distinguished them by peculiar privileges …
189 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 95.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… (as Calvin says) “to prepare the souls of the people for obedience.” The “ten words” were afterwards written on two tables of stone, which were to be kept within the …
190 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 96.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… . As Calvin remarks, it condemns “all fictitious worship which men have invented according to their own minds,” and not according to the word of God. The third …
191 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 138.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… enemies.”—Calvin.
192 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 145.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , as Calvin remarks, Miriam and Aaron now actually boasted in that prophetic gift, which should have only wrought in them a sense of deep humility. ( Numbers 12 …
193 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 158.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ?” (as Calvin remarks) Moses made his appeal “to the general grace of creation,” praying that, “as God was the Creator and Maker of the world, He would not destroy man …
194 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 45.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ,” as Calvin remarks, to show the subjection of all to God, and to increase the trust of Israel. This, and not, as in our Authorized Version, “very far from the city of …
195 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 87.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… by Calvin. The word used by the apostle ( 2 Peter 1:15 ) is “Exodus,” the same as employed in the conversation on the Mount of Transfiguration ( Luke 9:31 ), to which St. Peter …
196 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 80.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… rejection. Calvin remarks: “We see here the prophet affected as other men. As Samuel beholds the vessel which God’s own hand had made, more than broken and minished …
197 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 81.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… narrative. Calvin and others have given too much attention to a cavil which is best refuted by an attentive study of the history.
198 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 120 (John Foxe)
Chapter 13—An Account of the Life of John Calvin
199 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 120.4 (John Foxe)
… which Calvin, who, by reading the Scriptures, had conceived a dislike to the superstitions of popery, readily consented, and resigned the chapel of Gesine …
200 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 120.5 (John Foxe)
… which Calvin furnished the materials, having greatly displeased the Sorbonne and the parliament, gave rise to a persecution against the Protestants, and …