JOHN CALVIN

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20 QUESTION 8 JEW: I ask you, how was your Messiah the king of peace when there was strife throughout his time and since then the world has not rested from war? For it is written, Of the increase of his dominion and of peace there is no end (Isaiah 9:6). And Jesus said, I did not come to bring peace on earth, but a sword (Matthew 10:34). But if this is so, then his words contradict the words of the prophets. <strong>CALVIN</strong>: In return I ask you, when did the kings come from the far off lands and become tributary to the people of Israel? When did the wealth of all the nations become amassed, so as to become spoils for the Jews? How does Isaiah say that they will return to their fatherland from exile with their banner unfurled? Where is the splendor of that second temple, which Haggai 14 promised? Surely, were all the prophets and all religion not a joke to those rascals, they would consider with a very different reverence whatever God proclaims concerning his favors. The solution to the question is that, although the world does not enjoy the peace brought forth through Christ, the blame for this belongs to no one else than to the very men who find it more pleasing to throw themselves into confusion by waging a sacrilegious war against God. But their depravity does not hinder the Messiah from maintaining both his office and the title of his office ("king of peace"). Indeed, he is not deprived of his power by the fact that the impious do not enjoy peace. On the contrary, because reconciliation with God was spurned by them, it was right for them to be forced into a blind rage by the horrible vengeance of God, so that they enter into conflict with one another. By their obstinacy the Jews were the first of men to show that they did not want peace with God. Therefore the Jews deservedly tore up their insides until the final destruction of their fatherland. Afterwards others followed, each one in his turn: for no nation was beyond this offense. But the faithful have proved quite well that Christ is the prince of peace, because in the midst of the oppressive and cruel disturbances of war they nevertheless 14 Haggai 2:9. See Section III, page 64.
21 called upon God with calm and tranquil souls. And it is this peace which is commended by Isaiah, with whom all the apostles agree, while they teach that this is the chief reward of faith, that we, trusting in a gracious God, might no longer be agitated, but stand still with peaceful souls in the midst of the agitations of the world (Luke 21:36). But when Christ says that he brings war rather than peace, this is due not to his essence but to the impiety of the world which kindles discord, whence oppressive conflicts arise.
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