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A commentary on the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. By M. John Calvin. Translated…A commentarie on the vvhole Epistle to the Hebrevves. By M. Iohn Caluin. Translated…
A commentary on the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. By M. John Calvin. Translated out of FrenchA commentarie on the vvhole Epistle to the Hebrevves. By M. Iohn Caluin. Translated out of French
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Arthur Johnson, 1605London: printed by Felix Kingston for Arthur Iohnson, 1605
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12 For the word of God is lively, and mighty in operation, and sharper than any two edged sword, and entereth through, even unto the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints, and the marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts, & the intents of the heart.
12 For the word of God is liuely, and mightie in operation, and sharper than any two edged sword, and entreth through, euen vnto the diuiding asunder of the soule and the spirit, and of the ioynts, and the marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts, & the intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature, which is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and open unto his eyes, with whom we have to do.
13 Neither is there any creature, which is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and open vnto his eies, with whom we haue to doe.
Having showed us the mark whereat we ought to aim, Verse 11 he now admonisheth us to put our selves into the way; which we shall do, when we accustom our selves to renounce our own nature. Now because he compares the ⟨p. 77⟩entrance into this rest, to a strait course: he sets falling, as opposite thereunto: and so he continues the similitude in both the members. Although he by and by makes an allusion to the history, which Moses recites of those that fell in the desert, because they had rebelled against God, Numb. 26.65. And therefore he saith, after the same manner of disobedience: signifying that the punishment of infidelity and rebellion is represented before us, as it were in a painted table: also that we should not doubt but the like will befall us, if we be found guilty of the same infidelity. To fall, then is taken to perish: or to speak more clearly, it is taken for the punishment, and not for the sin. But this metaphor is to be referred both to the former word of entering, as also to the pitiful fall of the Fathers,