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John Calvin was an expository preacher, who preached sequentially through the scriptures, a few verses at a time, until he had commentated on almost the entire bible (baring a few books including Revelation). He had recorders who would record his lectures as he taught directly from the Hebrew and Greek, and then Calvin would compile his lectures into publish commentaries that we can all read today.
I was reading Calvin's commentary on Daniel 1-6, but took a quick digression to learn what Calvin taught on the resurrection based on a very popular and controversial passage in one of Paul's earliest letters: 1 Thessalonians. According to Calvin, Augustine was troubled by a possible contradiction between Paul's letters: In once place, Paul writes that we must all die in order to be resurrected, but here in 1 Thess 4:50, Paul suggest that those alive at the second coming will not die, but be resurrected. How is it that that these people may be resurrected, or clothed with the imperishable body and not have died? Well, Calvin concludes that at the second coming of Christ, all who are alive will died and be raised instantly! What an interesting conclusion, because we are so quick to follow Plato and dismiss this issue as spiritual or figurative or not inclusive to resolve the contradiction, but Calvin tells Augustine not to worry, because there is no real problem at all! John Calvin is a genius of the first rank! I'm not biased either. I've included Calvin's quote directly, you may read it here: or it appeared to them, at first view, to be absurd to say, that all would not die, while we read elsewhere, that it is appointed unto all men once to die. (Hebrews 9:27.) Hence they altered the meaning in this way All will not be changed, though all will rise again, or will die; and the change they interpret to mean the glory that the sons of God alone will obtain. The true reading, however, may be judged of from the context.
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