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…

Let us go forth to him, Vers. 13 &c.] To the end the Allegory which he brought before, or the similitude taken upon a derivation of the ancient ceremony of the law, might not seem to be far fetched, he adds a good, and a necessary exercise which is required of all Christians. And this order and manner of teaching S. Paul also is wont to keep: to wit, he shows the faithful wherein God would have them exercised, when he endeavours to turn them from those ceremonies, which are now become frivolous. As if he should say, This is it that God requires of you, and not that wherein you travail for nothing. The very same course doth the Apostle now take. For when he calleth us to follow Christ, ⟨p. 325⟩having left the Tabernacle: what doeth he else but admonish us that there is another manner of matter required at our hands, than to say that we serve God in the shadow, that is to say, at our ease, and without pain, under the glittering magnificence of the Temple: because we must march further, and must follow our vocation through flights, banishments, injuries, afflictions, slanders, reproaches, and through all manner of encumbrances? The Apostle then sets this condition of fighting, in which we must labour & sweat unto blood, as opposite against those exercises which consisted in shadows, in the meditation whereof, these masters of ceremonies only boasted.

Let vs goe foorth to him, Vers. 13 &c.] To the end the Allegorie which he brought before, or the similitude taken vpon a deriuation of the ancient ceremonie of the law, might not seeme to be farre fetched, he addes a good, and a necessarie exercise which is required of all Christians. And this order and manner of teaching S. Paul also is wont to keepe: to wit, he shewes the faithfull wherein God would haue them exercised, when he endeuours to turne them from those ceremonies, which are now become friuolous. As if he should say, This is it that God requires of you, and not that wherein you trauaile for nothing. The very same course doth the Apostle now take. For when he calleth vs to follow Christ, ⟨p. 325⟩hauing left the Tabernacle: what doeth he else but admonish vs that there is another manner of matter required at our hands, than to say that we serue God in the shadow, that is to say, at our ease, and without paine, vnder the glittering magnificence of the Temple: because we must march further, and must follow our vocation through flights, banishments, iniuries, afflictions, slaunders, reproaches, and through all manner of incombrances? The Apostle then sets this condition of fighting, in which we must labour & sweat vnto blood, as opposite against those exercises which consisted in shadowes, in the meditation whereof, these masters of ceremonies onely boasted.