Book 2/Chapter 8 Calvin on adultery (section 41) 1. Why should all uncleanness be far from us? 2. What effect does fornication have? Celibate follies (section 42) 1. What makes men doubly subject to women’s society? 2. What two ways is the gift of celibacy given? 3. Why can men not count on God’s help …
A Share in God”s Honor
Book 2/Chapter 8 The wide meaning of honor (section 35) 1. Who is encompassed under the fifth commandment? 2. Is honor a word with a narrow definition? 3. What do fathers, princes or lords all have? Worthy of honor (section 36) 1. Are we allowed to withhold honor based on the recipient’s lack of merit? …
Calvin on Sunday
Book 2/Chapter 8 The chief place (section 29) 1. What lesson occupied the chief place in the Sabbath? 2. When should we be at this place of spiritual rest? The seventh day (section 30) 1. What does the number seven represent in Scripture? Sabbath fulfillment (section 31) 1. Can the sabbath be kept merely by …
Idle Oaths
Book 2/Chapter 8 Idle oaths (section 25) 1. What renders God’s name cheap and common? 2. When men swear unnecessarily, what are they doing? Sermon on the Mount (section 26) 1. Who condemns all oaths whatever, and why? 2. Interpreting Christ’s words as forbidding all oaths whatever does what to the relationship between Jesus and …
Generational Judgment and Mercy
Book 2/Chapter 8 Visiting iniquity (section 19) 1. Does Calvin interpret the threat to “visit iniquity” to subsequent generations as a reference to temporal difficulties only? Justice and generational judgment (section 20) 1. Why did Ezekiel tell the people to stop using the proverb about the father eating grapes and the children’s teeth being set …
Bowing Before Images as Adultery
Book 2/Chapter 8 Out of bondage (section 15) 1. What does Calvin identify as one of the greatest crimes? 2. Why does God reveal Himself through certain particular titles? 3. What did Israel’s enslavement in Israel represent typologically? Authority (section 16) 1. What does the first commandment reveal about God’s authority? 2. What four things …
The Ten Words
Book 2/Chapter 8 Strong language (section 10) 1. Why does God rebuke sin so strongly in the law, put the worst possible light on our behavior? For example, why call hatred murder? Two tables (section 11) 1. How does Calvin divide the law given in the ten commandments? 2. What is vanity to attempt? Right …
The Law Restored
Book 2/Chapter 8 The law’s sufficiency (section 5) 1. Nothing is more acceptable to God than what? 2. What religious affectation is rooted in man’s nature? 3. What is an intolerable profanation of divine righteousness? Total law (section 6) 1. If an earthly king forbids a particular action, what is not included? 2. How is …
Natural Law Written
Book 2/Chapter 8 Natural law written (section 1) 1. What is the written moral law? 2. What does God reprove us for through the law? 3. Why is the written law necessary? Inexorable law (section 2) 1. When do we render God the reverence due to Him? 2. In what way is God always like …
The Third Use of the Law
Book 2/Chapter 7 The third use (section 12) 1. What is the third use of the law, according to Calvin? 2. Is this a minor use of the law? 3. How does the law help the believer? 4. Is this use dependent upon precept alone? Antinomianism (section 13) 1. What do certain ignorant persons do? …