Thursday, January 22, 2009

Calvin: you big softie

He really ought to stop faffing about and put it bluntly....
I know what certain rascals bawl out in corners in order to display the keenness of their wit in assailing God's truth. For they ask, Who assures us that the books that we read under the names of Moses and the prophets were written by them? they even dare question whether there ever was a Moses. Yet if anyone were to call in doubt whether there ever was a Plato, an Aristotle, or a Cicero, who would not say that such folly ought to be chastises with the fist or the lash.

Institutes 1.8.9 (Battles p88)

Those were the days....

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