Book 2/Chapter 12 A necessary Incarnation (section 4)? 1. What “speculation” does Calvin address next? 2. What does Calvin think of those who “leap over these bounds”? Whose mistake is it (section 5)? 1. Who is Calvin addressing in this section? 2. Does Calvin believe that Adam’s fall precedes God’s decree in time? Osiander’s doctrine …
The Immanuel Necessity
Book 2/Chapter 12 Bridge the gulf (section 1) 1. What was of the greatest importance? 2. Where did this necessity come from? 3. Why did God have to descend to us? Children of men (section 2) 1. What were the children of men to become? 2. The heirs of Gehenna were to become what? 3. …
A Notable Mark
Book 2/Chapter 11 The difference in detail (section 8) 1. Why is the New Testament spiritual? 2. What is the final contrast between the testaments? 3. What is the difference between the moral law and the ceremonial law in the Old Testament? Bondage and freedom (section 9) 1. What is the fourth contrast between the …
Twinkling Afar Off
Book 2/Chapter 11 Benefits and Punishments as Types (section 3) 1. What did Calvin believe about benefits and punishments in the Old Testament era? 2. What purpose did that serve? The second difference (section 4) 1. What was the second difference between the two testaments? 2. What is the fulfillment of those figures? 3. When …
Differences Between the Testaments
Book 2/Chapter 11 Differences between the Testaments (section 1) 1. How many differences are there between the Old and the New Testaments? 2. What is the first of these differences? 3. How did this differ from what Calvin’s opponents said? Childhood (section 2) 1. Calvin reapplies an image that Paul used in Galatians. What is …
More Than a Full Belly
Book 2/Chapter 10 The hope of the godly (section 17) 1. How often did Calvin believe that promises of blessedness were fulfilled in this life for Old Testament saints? 2. Did this cause these saints to despair of the fulfillment? The flip side (section 18) 1. Did the wicked ever receive “blessings” in this life? …
Trials of the Patriarchs
Book 2/Chapter 10 The trials of Isaac and Jacob (section 12) 1. Did Isaac live as troubled a life as Abraham? 2. What about Jacob? 3. What are the implications of this? Looking to the promises (section 13) 1. What Scripture settles the issue? 2. What would the patriarchs have been if God had promised …
Old Testament Faith
Book 2/Chapter 10 They had the Word (section 7) 1. In arguing for the spiritual benefits enjoyed by the Old Testament saints, what does Calvin point to in this section as their possession? God as their God (section 8) 1. What else did they possess? A third argument (section 9) 1. What is Calvin’s next …
Corinthians in the Wilderness
Book 2/Chapter 10 A unified covenant (section 1) 1. What point does Calvin believe it is very important to make? 2. What was said concerning the Jews by Calvin’s opponents? Points of unity (section 2) 1. How much alike are the various covenants that God has made with men? 2. Are these covenants similar? 3. …
Calvin on Law and Gospel
Book 2/Chapter 9 A foretaste (section 1) 1. What did God attest through the Old Testament promises? 2. What did the teaching and ceremonies of the Old Testament point to? 3. Did this make this teaching valueless to the prophets themselves? Two senses of gospel (section 2) 1. What does the word gospel taken in …