"We must
gather that to profit much in the holy Scripture we must always resort to our
Lord Jesus Christ and cast our eyes upon him, without turning from him at any
time. You will see a number of
people who labor very hard indeed at reading the holy Scriptures – they do
nothing else but turn over the leaves of it…. And why? Because they do not have any particular
aim in view, they only wander about …. [A]lthough they have gathered together a
number of sentences of all sorts, yet nothing of value results from them. Even so it is with them that labor in
reading the Holy Scriptures and do not know which is the point they ought to
rest on, namely, the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
(John Calvin, Sermon on Ephesians
2:19-22, 1559)
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