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CHAPTER 14.
CALVIN’S THEOLOGY.
§ 111. CALVIN’S COMMENTARIES.
I. Calvin’s Commentaries on the Old Test. in Opera, vols. XXIII.–
XLIV., on the New Test., vols. XLV. sqq. (not yet completed).
Separate Latin ed. of the Commentaries on the New Test. by Tholuck,
Berlin, and Halle, 1831, 1836, etc., 7 vols.; also on Genesis (by
Hengstenberg, Berlin, 1838) and on the Psalms (by Tholuck, 1836, 2
vols.). Translations in French (by J. Girard, 1650, and others), English
(by various writers, 1570 sqq.), and other languages. Best English ed.
by the “Calvin Translation Soc.,” Edinburgh, 1843–55 (30 vols. for the
O. T., 13 for the N. T.). See list in Darling’s Cyclopaedia
Bibliographica, sub “Calvin.”
II. A. Tholuck: Die Verdienste Calvin’s als Schriftausleger, in his
“Lit. Anzeiger,” 1831, reprinted in his “Vermischte Schriften”
(Hamburg, 1839), vol. II. 330–360, and translated by Wm. Pringle
(added to Com. on Joshua in the Edinb. ed. 1854, pp. 345–375).—G.
W. MEYER: Geschichte der Schrifterklaerung, II. 448–475.—D. G.
ESCHER.: De Calvino interprete, Traj., 1840.—ED. REUSS: Calvin
considéré comme exegète, in “Revue,” VI. 223.—A. VESSON: Calvin
exegète, Montaub, 1855.—E. STAEHELIN: Calvin, I. 182–198.—
SCHAFF: Creeds of Christendom, I. 457–460.—MERX: Joel, Halle,
1879, pp. 428–444.—FRED. W. FARRAR: History of Interpretation
(London, 1886), pp. 342–354.
Calvin was an exegetical genius of the first order. His commentaries are
unsurpassed for originality, depth, perspicuity, soundness, and permanent
value. The Reformation period was fruitful beyond any other in translations
and expositions of the Scripture. If Luther was the king of translators,
Calvin was the king of commentators. Poole, in the preface to his Synopsis,
apologizes for not referring more frequently to Calvin, because others had
so largely borrowed from him that to quote them was to quote him. Reuss,