aadebayo
Puritan Board Freshman
Hello All
I am currently studying this passage. I am studying with John Calvin's commentary. I have just read these words. Yet, if we attend to the time and place when these things happened, Christ’s affection for his mother was worthy of admiration. I say nothing about the severe tortures of his body; I say nothing about the reproaches which he suffered; but, though horrible blasphemies against God filled his mind with inconceivable grief, and though he sustained a dreadful contest with eternal death and with the devil, still, none of these things prevent him from being anxious about his mother. We may also learn from this passage, what is the honor which God, by the Law, commands us to render to parents, (Exodus 20:12.) Christ appoints the disciple to be his substitute, and charges him to support and take care of his mother; and hence it follows, that the honor which is due to parents consists, not in cold ceremony, 171 but in the discharge of all necessary duties. They are located here,Commentary on John - Volume 2 - Christian Classics Ethereal Library, though I am using a hard copy of his book. The issue is that at first glance, they seem like blasphemy. Especially where Calvin says that though Christ
I am currently studying this passage. I am studying with John Calvin's commentary. I have just read these words. Yet, if we attend to the time and place when these things happened, Christ’s affection for his mother was worthy of admiration. I say nothing about the severe tortures of his body; I say nothing about the reproaches which he suffered; but, though horrible blasphemies against God filled his mind with inconceivable grief, and though he sustained a dreadful contest with eternal death and with the devil, still, none of these things prevent him from being anxious about his mother. We may also learn from this passage, what is the honor which God, by the Law, commands us to render to parents, (Exodus 20:12.) Christ appoints the disciple to be his substitute, and charges him to support and take care of his mother; and hence it follows, that the honor which is due to parents consists, not in cold ceremony, 171 but in the discharge of all necessary duties. They are located here,Commentary on John - Volume 2 - Christian Classics Ethereal Library, though I am using a hard copy of his book. The issue is that at first glance, they seem like blasphemy. Especially where Calvin says that though Christ
Calvin could not have meant to speak evil of Christ. Please can someone explain this to me?
