Friday, June 29, 2018

Reformed Wisdom

On Isaiah 8:20 --
"Hence we learn that everything which is added to the word must be condemned and rejected.  It is the will of the Lord that we shall depend wholly on his word, and that our knowledge shall be confined within its limits; and therefore, if we lend our ears to others, we take a liberty which he has forbidden, and offer to him a gross insult.  Everything that is introduced by men on their own authority will be nothing else than a corruption of the word; and consequently, if we wish to obey God, we must reject all others instructors."  -- Calvin, Commentary on Isaiah, vol. 1, 290.

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