John Calvin Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:30 - 15:30

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John Calvin Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:30 - 15:30


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30.Why are we also? “ our resurrection and ultimate felicity are in this world, why do we of our own accord abandon it, and voluntarily encounter death?” The argument might also be unfolded in this manner: “ no purpose would we stand in peril every hour, if we did not look for a better life, after death has been passed through.” He speaks, however, of voluntary dangers, to which believers expose their lives for the purpose of confessing Christ. “ magnanimity of soul, I say, in despising death, would be ascribed to rashness rather than firmness, if the saints perished at death, for it is a diabolical madness to purchase by death an immortal fame. (74)



(74) “Quand quelques fois les mondaines s’ a la mort seulement pour acquerir vn bruit immortel;” — “ worldly persons in some cases expose themselves to death, merely to acquire an immortal fame.”