John Calvin: Ravenous Wolves Who Wreak Havoc
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The Hypocrites of the Church
Many people without a single ounce of the fear of God or reverence for his word nevertheless pretend to be great zealots. They allure poor souls only to strangle them in a manner of speaking. Paul adds that these people want to glory in the flesh of simple-minded folk. It is as if he is saying they want to leave their mark upon you in order to prove that they have won you over. How detestable this makes them that they would abuse the sign that God gave to ratify the adoption of Abraham and his descendants and corrupt its true and legitimate use. We must not permit the truth of God to diminish in our eyes because a man fickle by nature alters and
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