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    Calvin's Commentaries

    How many of you read from Calvin's Commentaries? When I was still a United Methodist Minster, and before I was a Calvinist, my oppinion was that Calvin's commentaries were the best that I have ever read. Surprisingly, when I was invited to the home of a reformed minister in my area, after leaving the UMC, he didn't even have a copy!
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    I have them and consider them a "bedrock" set. I normaly read Calvin first. I can't imagine not using them.

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    I do, due to the limited resources for Chinese Christian literature. Calvin's Institutes, commentaries, short treatises are very important to the Chinese Christians. I read them all the time. I find his commentaries on Romans and Genesis are the best.
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    Oh, Calvin is a must. And if you wait for a sale, you can get the set for around $100. No excuses!
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    I constantly click on them from Bibleworks.
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    I love mine, well worth the money.
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    I do. Very helpful.
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    Everyone's talking about buying Calvin's Commentaries.

    There's always the free download to get started:

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    I never read them or used them to be honest. I have read his institutes and put on logos preorder the calvin 500 works with all that good stuff.
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    i read it from ccel ...i want to buy the set ... maybe later
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    I own them and read them, when studying passages for sermons and for privat study
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    I have a set and I love them.
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    I only own the (amazing) commentaries on Daniel (2-vol, Eerdmans), Joel, Amos, and Obadiah (1-vol, Banner), but I'm always borrowing volumes from the old, dusty complete set of the library at Knox College, University of Toronto. (Sometimes I think I'm the only person who has taken them out in thirty years.) Sitting down with one of Calvin's commentaries is the perfect private Bible study with a master exegete and pastor. Always challenging (as the Word of God challenges us) and edifying.
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    I have them...I use them.

    I haven't perused a ton of other commentaries...but in my limited useage, I've found Calvin to be the best compared to what's easily available.
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    I have and use them regularly. Unlike many commentators, I find him to be concise and to the point - his chapter on Romans 1 is only 30 pages, compared to MacArthur's 105. He doesn't give as much historical insight as others, but his exegesis is superb.
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    Most of the older commentaries that I own, or have owned, don't have as much historical information as some of the new ones. They are more exegetical and devotional, like Calvin. When I read Calvin, I also read a newer commentary, alongside it, so as to obtain some historical information that might be helpful.
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    I have them in a variety of electronic formats (am hoping to get a set of the Calvin 500 edition when it comes out in a few weeks) but strongly disagree with his handling of 2 & 3 John and Revelation!!!

    I can think of no other commentaries that have proven so durable and transgenerational in outliving their own day as Calvin. There are a few classics (Owen on Hebrews and Spurgeon on Psalms) that have endured, but none have worn so well for so long on so many books of the Bible.
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    I have a set and read them as well. I particulary like his sermons too. I find him to be quite warm and encouraging in them, and I almost prefer them sometimes to the commentary itself.
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    At first, I probably didn't believe the hype. I recall Fred Greco once wrote something to the effect of "Read Calvin first, then read Calvin. And finally, read Calvin". So I decided to take advantage of a great offer to which MarrowMan referred: "Oh, Calvin is a must. And if you wait for a sale, you can get the set for around $100. No excuses!". I value Poole and I love Hawkers NT Commentary for its devotional quality, but Fred G was right. Calvin cannot be matched. In fact, if you look closely, even Book 2 Smiley is reading Calvin. See?...
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    I just preordered a 500th Anniversary set of the commentaries (due out now in June) for $120 (including a matching 500th Anniversary edition of the Institutes).
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    Quote Originally Posted by DMcFadden View Post
    I just preordered a 500th Anniversary set of the commentaries (due out now in June) for $120 (including a matching 500th Anniversary edition of the Institutes).
    Thanks, Dennis! I'll watch for those in the mail.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DMcFadden View Post
    I have them in a variety of electronic formats (am hoping to get a set of the Calvin 500 edition when it comes out in a few weeks) but strongly disagree with his handling of 2 & 3 John and Revelation!!!
    No kidding; I had to give up preaching through 1 Samuel for the same reason!
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    This collector's edition (500th Anniversary) of his writings includes commentaries on 24 books of the Old Testament; all of the New Testament except for 2 & 3 John and Revelation; and Henry Beveridge's classic translation of the Institutes. 23 hardcovers.


    Calvin's Commentaries with Calvin's Institutes, 23 Volumes - - Christianbook.com = $119.99


    And

    John Calvin, Tracts and Letters - 7 volumes - By: John Calvin - Christianbook.com = $79.99
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    I own the 22 vol set, and use it a LOT. I always start with Calvin and work out from there when looking to the commentators.

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    I do, due to the limited resources for Chinese Christian literature. Calvin's Institutes, commentaries, short treatises are very important to the Chinese Christians. I read them all the time. I find his commentaries on Romans and Genesis are the best.
    What a great encouragement to hear that Calvin's works are held so dear to the Chinese Christians. I lived in China for 3 months when I was 21 (I had my 22nd birthday while I was there) and even though I was totally lost in darkness and sin at the time (I was not converted until I was back in Canada) there has always been a place in my heart for the chinese people.
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    Quote Originally Posted by py3ak View Post
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    I just preordered a 500th Anniversary set of the commentaries (due out now in June) for $120 (including a matching 500th Anniversary edition of the Institutes).
    Thanks, Dennis! I'll watch for those in the mail.
    . . .

    . . .

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    I don't believe that a omnivorous reader like you is lacking in a copy of Calvin's Commentaries.
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    I got the set a couple years ago for 99$. What a steal. I like having them in E-Sword too. Nice to be able to do word searches.
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    Next to the perusal of the Scriptures, which I earnestly inculcate, I exhort my pupils to peruse CALVIN's commentaries, which I extol in loftier terms than Helmich himself; for I affirm that he excels beyond comparison in the interpretation of Scripture, and that his commentaries ought to be more highly valued than all that is han+ded down to us by the Library of the Fathers; so that I acknowledge him to have possessed above most others, or rather above all other men, what may be called an eminent gift of prophecy.

    Does anyone here know who wrote the above quote? Arminius did. Would that Arminians were so perceptive!
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    I am buying a copy this weekend along with the Institutes for $120!


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    Quote Originally Posted by reformedminister View Post
    How many of you read from Calvin's Commentaries? When I was still a United Methodist Minster, and before I was a Calvinist, my oppinion was that Calvin's commentaries were the best that I have ever read. Surprisingly, when I was invited to the home of a reformed minister in my area, after leaving the UMC, he didn't even have a copy!
    Calvin's commentaries are terrific. In a lot of ways they seem very up-to-date too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DMcFadden View Post
    I have them in a variety of electronic formats (am hoping to get a set of the Calvin 500 edition when it comes out in a few weeks) but strongly disagree with his handling of 2 & 3 John and Revelation!!!

    I can think of no other commentaries that have proven so durable and transgenerational in outliving their own day as Calvin. There are a few classics (Owen on Hebrews and Spurgeon on Psalms) that have endured, but none have worn so well for so long on so many books of the Bible.
    I just draw a complete blank when it comes to his commentary on Revelation. I guess I just don't get it or something.
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    I just preordered a 500th Anniversary set of the commentaries (due out now in June) for $120 (including a matching 500th Anniversary edition of the Institutes).
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    I want to buy a set but I currently settle by reading them online.

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    I want too but I can't afford them, I'm a student.
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    Just picked up the commentaries on 2 Corinthians, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus & Philemon in one volume (Eerdmans paperback). I'm not big on paperbacks, but I had to get it; about $13 brand new at a discount Christian bookstore on campus (the market price is $38).
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    Quote Originally Posted by DMcFadden View Post
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    Where from? That's a good price....
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