^{page 497 note 1} Hartt made this observation in a conversation at the University of Virginia in the Spring of 1982.

^{page 497 note 2} Bois, Henri, La Philosophie de Calvin (Paris: Librairie Generale et Protestante, 1919), passim.Google Scholar

^{page 497 note 3} Torrance, T. F., Calvin's Doctrine of ManGoogle Scholar and Jacobs, Paul, Praedestination und Vorantwortlichkeit bei CalvinGoogle Scholar, and Bois are some exceptions.

^{page 498 note 1} Dowey, Edward, The Knowledge of God in Calvin's Theology (Columbia, 1952).Google Scholar

^{page 498 note 2} Ibid. pp. 218–19.

^{page 499 note 1} All citations from the Institutes are taken from the McNeil edition, trans. Battles, Ford Lewis (Westminster, 1960).Google Scholar Hereafter, citations will be made in the text by book, chapter and section.

^{page 499 note 2} Calvin, John, Concerning Eternal Predestination, trans. Reid, J. K. S. (London: Clark 1961), p. 177.Google Scholar

^{page 499 note 3} These passages are quoted in Partee, Charles, Calvin and Philosophy (Leiden: Brill, 1977), p. 77.Google Scholar

^{page 501 note 1} What God decrees will necessarily take place, not because God has exercised any foreknowledge, but simply from the fact that God has issued a command (see III, 21, 5; III, 21, I; III, 22, 3–6).

^{page 504 note 1} Calvin, , ‘Articles Concerning Predestination’, in Calvin: Theological Treatises, ed. Reid, J. K. S. (Westminster, 1954), pp. 179–80.Google Scholar

^{page 504 note 2} Niesel, Wilhelm, The Theology of Calvin, trans. Knight, Harold (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1980).Google Scholar

^{page 506 note 1} Gerrish, Brian, ‘To the Unknown God: Luther and Calvin on the Hiddenness of God’, journal of Religion LIII (1973), 274.Google Scholar In his essay Gerrish directs this question to the early Luther, but later notes that such a question could equally apply to Calvin.

^{page 506 note 2} Ibid.

^{page 506 note 3} See Barth's, Church Dogmatics, II, 1 and II, 2.Google Scholar

^{page 507 note 1} Dowey, , p. 188.Google Scholar

^{page 507 note 2} Ibid. Emphasis mine.

^{page 507 note 3} An exception is the Commentary on St John, where Calvin often maintains that Christ atones only for those given him by the Father.

^{page 507 note 4} Concerning Eternal Predestination, p. 113.

^{page 508 note 1} I am not referring to the inescapable veiling of the divine that is part of the act of self-revelation itself. This is not Pascal's Dieu cache in the Eucharist or Barth's veiled unveiling or Tillich's claim that no religiously symbolic material is itself divine. Rather, I am speaking of what Gerrish (sec note o, p. o) calls Hiddenness II, the hidden God behind revelation, the hidden God that stands outside any possible relation.

^{page 509 note 1} Concerning Eternal Predestination, pp. 102–3.

^{page 509 note 2} Ibid. pp. 148–9.

^{page 509 note 3} I would like to thank Professor Carlos Eire for reading an earlier draft of this essay and making many helpful comments.