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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
The Institutes is a long and detailed essay upon the know-ledge of God, not a well-constructed and comprehensive system of theology, a kind of Reformed Summa Theologica. It was this problem of the knowledge of God which constituted the real disagreement with Rome, and in the Institutes Calvin works out from the Scriptures the Reformed doctrine of the knowledge of God to stand in opposition to the contemporary and scholastic Roman doctrine based upon the synthesis of the Scriptures and Greek philosophy. When once this is understood, the different doctrines treated in the book fall easily into their places in relation to the central theme, the knowledge of God.
page 30 note 1 “Quia Deus ipse prpcul absconditus lateret,”
page 31 note 1 “Oculis quidem mundum cernimus, pedibus calcamus terram, manibus palpamus innumeras operum Dei species, odorem ex herbis et floribus suavem iucundumque haurimus, fruimur ingentibus bonis: sed in his ipsis quorum notitiam apprehendimus, inest ea divinae potentiae, bonjtatis, sapientiae infinitas, quaesensus omnes nostros absorbeat,”
page 32 note 1 “…eximium quoddam inter alias creaturas divinae sapientiae, iustitiae, et bonitatis specimen.”
page 32 note 2 “Deum, qui invisibilis est, nonnisi ex suis operibus cognoscimus.”
page 32 note 3 “Ita se patefecit in toto mundi opificio, ac se quotidie palam offert, ut aperire oculos nequeant quin aspicere eum cogantur.”
page 32 note 4 Nobis vice speculi sit tam concinna mundi positio, in quo invisibilem alioqui Deum contemplari liceat.”
page 32 note 5 “Si de essentia eius agitur, habitat certe lucem inaccessam: sed dum irradiat totum mundum suo fulgore, haec vestis est in qua visibilis quodammodo nobis apparet qui in seipso erat absconditus,”
page 33 note 1 “Puisqu'il s'est manifesté à nous par ses oeuvres, il faut bien que nous ie cherchions en elles.”
“Singulis operibus suis certas gloriae suae notas insculpsit.”
page 34 note 1 “…qui Deum otiosum inertemque somniant,”
page 35 note 1 “…ut nihil contingat, nisi ab ipso sciente et volente decretum,”
page 36 note 1 “Sapientia ipsa manifeste excellit dum optima unamquanque rem opportunitate dispensat: quamlibet mundi perspicaciam confundit, deprehendit astutos in astutia sua: nihil denique non optima ratione attemperat.”
page 41 note 1 Calvin uses this metaphor twice in the Institutio, and as things have turned out, it is a bad metaphor. He most certainly did not mean that man suffers merely from dimness of sight, or from cataract, and needs spectacles to help him to see clearly what he already sees mistily. His whole theological aim and work repudiates that decisively. As I say, it is a bad metaphor, and should not be pressed.
page 44 note 1 “A suis enim virtutibus manifestatur Dominus.”
page 45 note 1 “… in quo tam exacte summa omnium eius virtutum reqensetur, ut nihil Omissum videri queat.”