Looking Backwards: The Protestant Latin Bible in the Eyes of Johannes Piscator and Abraham Calov

Abstract

According to this chapter, In assessing how much and in what way the Protestant Latin bible was important for Protestants one needs to evaluate what such a thing meant to those who came decades after the main flurry of Latin bible production. It is considered how it featured in the work of two theologians who were active in the early and mid- Seventeenth Century, one Calvinist and the other Lutheran, namely Piscator and Calov. In his Preface to New Testament Epistles Commentary Piscator contends that Scripture contains three kinds of things: the true and certain, the useful and necessary, and also the pleasant. Unlike Piscator, Calov on his passage in Ephesians made his own translation, as for all his biblical commentary on Paul's Epistles. One might draw from the evidence presented that the Reformed place the emphasis on the letter of the text, and Lutherans on the spirit behind it. Keywords:Calov; Calvinist; Ephesians; Lutherans; Piscator; Protestant Latin bible; Scripture

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