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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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Wherefore God is not ashamed to call them, &c.] Vers. 16 He hath respect unto that sentence, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, Exod. 3.6. Truly it is no small honour, when God makes himself famous, as it were, with the names of men also when by this mark he will be discerned (as you would say) from Idols. The Apostle shows that this privilege was also founded upon faith, because that as the holy Fathers aspired unto the heavenly country; so God also for his part held them to be of the number of his citizens. But we must gather from hence that we have no place among the children of God, unless we renounce the world: 1as also that we shall have no inheritance in heaven, unless we be strangers on earth. Furthermore, from these words, I am the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the Apostle rightly gathereth that they are heirs of heaven: because God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Wherefore God is not ashamed to call them, &c.] Vers. 16 He hath respect vnto that sentence, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob, Exod. 3.6. Truely it is no small honour, when God makes himselfe famous, as it were, with the names of men also when by this marke he wil be discerned (as you would say) from Idols. The Apostle shewes that this priuiledge was also founded vpon faith, because that as the holy Fathers aspired vnto the heauenly countrie; so God also for his part held them to be of the number of his citizens. But we must gather from hence that we haue no place among the children of God, vnlesse we renounce the world: 1as also that we shal haue no inheritance in heauē, vnlesse we be strangers on earth. Furthermore, from these words, I am the God of Abraham, of Isaack, and of Iacob, the Apostle rightly gathereth that they are heires of heauen: because God is not the God of the dead, but of the liuing.
- 1We shall have no inheritance in heaven, unless we count our selves strangers in the earth.