John Calvin: Christ in All the Scriptures, Christ for All Our Needs

Seeing Christ from Genesis to Revelations is exalting Christ is His Supremacy

Tides and Turning

Justin Taylor drew attention to a portion of this quote on his blog the other day. I had never read it. It comes from John Calvin’s Preface to Olvetan’s New Testament. It contains, perhaps, the most moving words I have ever read from Calvin – and one of the clearest summaries of the gospel as well. Calvin sought to behold Christ in all of the Scriptures, and may we follow his example, and his Savior:

Therefore, when you hear that the gospel presents you Jesus Christ in whom all the promises and gifts of God have been accomplished; and when it declares that he was sent by the Father, has descended to the earth and spoken among men perfectly all that concerns our salvation, as it was foretold in the Law and to the Prophets — it ought to be most certain and obvious to you that the treasures of…

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