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Calvin was an exegetical genius of the first order. His commentaries are unsurpassed for originality, depth, perspicuity, soundness and permanent value. He combined in a very rare degree all the essential qualities of an exegete—grammatical knowledge, spiritual insight, acute perception, sound judgment, and practical tact.
—Philip Schaff

Calvin’s Commentaries (46 Vols.) are, in the words of Philip Schaff, one of the few exegetical works that have outlived their generation. Calvin preached and wrote prolifically on the Bible. His commentaries display a rare combination of exegetical insight, pastoral concern, and theological depth which have inspired generations of Christians. Calvin wrote commentaries on most books of the Bible, and is best known for his commentaries on the Pauline epistles, his harmony of the Gospels, and his 5-volume work on the Psalms—all included in this massive collection.

Logos is pleased to offer the edition of Calvin’s commentaries produced by the Calvin Translation Society, along with the volume on Calvin: Commentaries, part of the Library of Christian Classics published by Westminster John Knox Press. This is the same translation of Calvin’s Commentaries which underlies the 1979 Baker Book House edition (22 Vols.).

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Praise for John Calvin

. . . Calvin’s theology interests us in its historical context as an outstanding record of Reformation theology that historically—and at times even legally—has served as a basis of proclamation in modern Protestant churches.
—Karl Barth

Calvin helped the Reformation change the entire focus of the Christian life. Calvin’s teaching, preaching, and catechizing fostered growth in the relationship between believers and God.
—Joel R. Beeke

The Institutes is a strongly personal book. The author addresses his readers directly. . . . It is this immediate, engaging style that has no doubt contributed so much to the power and attraction of the Institutes over the years.
—Paul Helm

Calvin’s theological heritage has proved fertile perhaps to a greater extent than any other Protestant writer. Richard Baxter, Jonathan Edwards, and Karl Barth, in their very different ways, bear witness to the pivotal role that Calvin’s ideas have played in shaping Protestant self-perceptions down the centuries. . . . It is impossible to understand modern Protestantism without coming to terms with Calvin’s legacy to the movement which he did so much to nourish and sustain.
—Alister E. McGrath

The fundamental issue for John Calvin—from the beginning of his life to the end—was the issue of the centrality and supremacy and majesty of the glory of God.
—John Piper

John Calvin is a man of distinguished reputation, one of the great figures of church history.
—Wulfert de Greef

It would hardly be too much to say that for the latter part of his lifetime and a century after his death John Calvin was the most influential man in the world, in the sense that his ideas were making more history than those of anyone else during that period. Calvin’s theology produced the Puritans in England, the Huguenots in France, the ‘Beggars’ in Holland, the Covenanters in Scotland, and the Pilgrim Fathers of New England, and was more or less directly responsible for the Scottish uprising, the revolt of the Netherlands, the French wars of religion, and the English Civil War. Also, it was Calvin’s doctrine of the state as a servant of God that established the ideal of constitutional representative government and led to the explicit acknowledgment of the rights and liberties of subjects. . . . It is doubtful whether any other theologian has ever played so significant a part in world history.
—J.I. Packer

[Calvin] easily takes the lead among the systematic expounders of the Reformed system of Christian doctrine. . . Calvin’s theology is based upon a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. He was the ablest exegete among the Reformers, and his commentaries rank among the very best of ancient and modern times. His theology, therefore, is biblical rather than scholastic, and has all the freshness of enthusiastic devotion to the truths of God’s Word. At the same time he was a consummate logician and dialectician. He had a rare power of clear, strong, convincing statement. He built up a body of doctrines which is called after him, and which obtained symbolical authority through some of the leading Reformed Confessions of Faith.
—Philip Schaff

What is it about Calvin that so inspires me? This: his disciplined style, his determination never to speculate, his utter submission to Bible words as God's words, his submission to Christ's Lordship, his sense of the holy, his concern to be as practical as possible; the fact that godly living was his aim and not theology for the sake of it. In a forest of theologians, Calvin stands like a Californian Redwood, towering over everyone else.
—Derek Thomas

A little bit of the world’s history was enacted in Geneva.
—Ludwig Häusser

The greatest exegete and theologian of the Reformation was undoubtedly Calvin. . . . He is one of the greatest interpreters of Scripture who ever lived. He owes that position to a combination of merits. He had a vigorous intellect, a dauntless spirit, a logical mind, a quick insight, a thorough knowledge of the human heart, quickened by rich and strange experience; above all, a manly and glowing sense of the grandeur of the Divine. The neatness, precision, and lucidity of his style, his classic training and wide knowledge, his methodical accuracy of procedure, his manly independence, his avoidance of needless and commonplace homiletics, his deep religious feeling, his careful attention to the entire scope and context of every passage, and the fact that he has commented on almost the whole of the Bible, make him tower above the great majority of those who have written on Holy Scripture.
—Frederic William Farrar

Electronic Titles Included

Calvin: Commentaries

Editor: Joseph Haroutunian
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 1958
414 pages

This volume, demonstrating the main elements of Calvin’s doctrine as they appear in his many commentaries on the books of the Old and New Testaments, speaks with singular power to the ordinary reader today. Included are more than two hundred selections under headings ranging from the Bible, knowledge of God, and Jesus Christ to the Christian life, election and predestination, and the church. Introductory selections from Calvin’s own writings also are provided. The editor’s general introduction tells how the commentaries came to be.

Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles: 1 Peter, 1 John, James, 2 Peter, Jude

Publisher: Edinburgh, Calvin Translation Society, 1855
488 pages

Additional Information

Title: Calvin’s Commentaries and Calvin: Commentaries
Author: John Calvin
46 volumes
22,455 pages

About the Author

John Calvin was a theologian, pastor, biblical exegete, and tireless apologist for Reformed Christianity, and ranks among the most important thinkers in church history. His theological works, biblical commentaries, tracts, treatises, sermons, and letters helped establish the Reformation as a legitimate and thriving religious movement throughout Europe. No theologian has been as acclaimed or assailed as much as Calvin. Calvinism has spawned movements and sparked controversy throughout the centuries. Wars have been fought both to defend and destroy it, and its later proponents began political and theological revolutions in Western Europe and America. The breadth and depth of the engagement with his works since they first appeared four centuries ago—and their continuous publication since then—testifies to Calvin’s importance and lasting value for the church today. Thinking Christians from the twenty-first century who ignore Calvin’s writings do so at their own peril.

John Calvin was born on July 10, 1509 in Noyan, in France. He began his work in the church at the age of twelve, intending—at the request of his father—to train for the priesthood. Calvin attended the Collège de la Marche in Paris, before studying law at the University of Orléans in 1526 and continuing his studies at the University of Bourges. In 1532, Calvin’s first published work appeared: a commentary on Seneca's De Clementia.

On year later, he befriended Nicolas Cop, the rector of the Collège Royal in Paris. This friendship resulted in trouble for Calvin when Cop was branded a heretic after calling for reform in the Catholic Church. Cop fled to Basel, and Calvin was forced from Paris. The controversy expanded when, on the evening of October 18, 1534, anonymous attacks against the Mass were posted on public buildings, fueling the violence in the city. Calvin left France for Basel in January. The controversy, and the trouble it caused Calvin, disciplined him in his writing project, and he began working on the first edition of The Institutes of the Christian Religion, which appeared in 1536.

In June, 1536, Calvin returned to Paris as the violence subsided, but was expelled again in August of 1536. He left for Strasbourg, but was forced to Geneva instead, where he stayed at the request of William Farel. He became a reader in the church in 1537. In late 1537, Calvin fled Geneva after a controversy surrounding the Eucharist. He traveled to Basel before accepting a position at the church in Strasbourg. There, Calvin continued working on both the second edition of the Institutes and his Commentary on Romans. At the urging of his friends, Calvin married Idelette de Bure. He returned to Geneva in 1541.

Upon his arrival to Geneva, Calvin began writing prolifically. He continued his revisions to the Institutes, preached weekly, taught the Bible during the week, and delivered lectures on theology. Calvin also continued work on his New Testament commentaries.

His return to Geneva was not without controversy, however. He faced opposition from the libertines, who, in 1552, compromised his authority and nearly succeeded in banishing him from Geneva a second time. His greatest threat, however, came from his theological antagonist, Servetus. The frequent letters between Calvin and Servetus contain elements of their tenuous relationship, which were exacerbated when Servetus visited Geneva against Calvin’s orders, publicly denied the Trinity, and disgraced the church. He was condemned for heresy and executed.

By 1553, Calvin was praised for his work in uniting Geneva and securing the future of the Reformation. The church housed refugees from England—among them John Knox—who brought the Reformed faith to England. Calvin also sent more than 100 Reformed missionaries to France, and frequently corresponded with both political leaders and second generation Reformers throughout Europe. He also founded a school in Geneva, and Theodore Beza became its first rector. Calvin’s influence quickly expanded beyond the vicinity of Geneva.

During the 1550s, Calvin’s health began to decline, prompting him to undertake a final revision and expansion of The Institutes of the Christian Religion. It was published in 1559, and was immediately reprinted and translated throughout Europe. Calvin became ill in early 1564, and preached his last sermon on February 6 of that same year. His health worsened throughout the spring, and he died on May 27. Thousands flocked to view his body, forcing the council in Geneva to bury him in an unmarked grave.

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Calvin's Commentaries Upgrade (46 Vols.)

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Praise for John Calvin

Electronic Titles Included

Calvin: Commentaries

Commentaries on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis, Vol. 1

Commentaries on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis, Vol. 2

Commentaries on the Four Last Books of Moses, Vol. 1

Commentaries on the Four Last Books of Moses, Vol. 2

Commentaries on the Four Last Books of Moses, Vol. 3

Commentaries on the Four Last Books of Moses, Vol. 4

Commentaries on the Book of Joshua

Commentary on the Book of Psalms, Vol. 1

Commentary on the Book of Psalms, Vol. 2

Commentary on the Book of Psalms, Vol. 3

Commentary on the Book of Psalms, Vol. 4

Commentary on the Book of Psalms, Vol. 5

Commentary on the Prophet Isaiah, Vol. 1

Commentary on the Prophet Isaiah, Vol. 2

Commentary on the Prophet Isaiah, Vol. 3

Commentary on the Prophet Isaiah, Vol. 4

Commentaries on the Prophet Jeremiah and the Lamentations, Vol. 1

Commentaries on the Prophet Jeremiah and the Lamentations, Vol. 2

Commentaries on the Prophet Jeremiah and the Lamentations, Vol. 3

Commentaries on the Prophet Jeremiah and the Lamentations, Vol. 4

Commentaries on the Prophet Jeremiah and the Lamentations, Vol. 5

Commentaries on the Prophet Ezekiel, Vol. 1

Commentaries on the Prophet Ezekiel, Vol. 2

Commentaries on the Prophet Daniel, Vol. 1

Commentaries on the Prophet Daniel, Vol. 2

Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets, Vol. 1: Hosea

Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets, Vol. 2: Joel, Amos, Obadiah

Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets, Vol. 3: Jonah, Micah, Nahum

Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets, Vol. 4: Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai

Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets, Vol. 5: Zechariah and Malachi

Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Vol. 1

Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Vol. 2

Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Vol. 3

Commentary on the Gospel According to John, Vol. 1

Commentary on the Gospel According to John, Vol. 2

Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1

Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2

Commentary on the Epistle of Paul to the Romans

Commentary on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians, Vol. 1

Commentary on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians, Vol. 2

Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians

Commentaries on the Epistle to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians

Commentaries on the Epistle to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon

Commentaries on the Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews

Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles: 1 Peter, 1 John, James, 2 Peter, Jude

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