cookieofdoom

“Next to the study of the Scriptures which I earnestly inculcate, I exhort my pupils to peruse (John) Calvin’s Commentaries, which I extol in loftier terms than Helmich himself (a Dutch theologian, 1551-1608]; for I affirm that he excels beyond comparison (incomparabilem esse) in the interpretation of Scripture, and that his commentaries ought to be more highly valued than all that is handed down to us by the library of the fathers”