Calvin's Commentaries

[Joseph Scibbe]

I am buying a copy this weekend along with the Institutes for $120!

 

[AndyS]

How many of you read from Calvin's Commentaries? When I was still a United Methodist Minster, and before I was a Calvinist, my oppinion was that Calvin's commentaries were the best that I have ever read. Surprisingly, when I was invited to the home of a reformed minister in my area, after leaving the UMC, he didn't even have a copy!

Calvin's commentaries are terrific. In a lot of ways they seem very up-to-date too.

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I have them in a variety of electronic formats (am hoping to get a set of the Calvin 500 edition when it comes out in a few weeks) but strongly disagree with his handling of 2 & 3 John and Revelation!!!

I can think of no other commentaries that have proven so durable and transgenerational in outliving their own day as Calvin. There are a few classics (Owen on Hebrews and Spurgeon on Psalms) that have endured, but none have worn so well for so long on so many books of the Bible.

I just draw a complete blank when it comes to his commentary on Revelation. I guess I just don't get it or something.

 

[py3ak]

I just preordered a 500th Anniversary set of the commentaries (due out now in June) for $120 (including a matching 500th Anniversary edition of the Institutes).

Thanks, Dennis! I'll watch for those in the mail.

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I don't believe that a omnivorous reader like you is lacking in a copy of Calvin's Commentaries.

Electronic only, I'm afraid. Most of my books have been packed in boxes for a majority of their existence; and most of my books are no longer mine.

 

[ReformedChapin]

I want to buy a set but I currently settle by reading them online.

Calvin's Commentaries-Complete | Christian Classics Ethereal Library

 

[PresbyDane]

You must get them as real books, there is an unresistable charm to real books, booooks

 

[ReformedChapin]

You must get them as real books, there is an unresistable charm to real books, booooks

I want too but I can't afford them, I'm a student.

 

[PresbyDane]

I am sorry, but at least you know what to wish for for, christmas, or birthday, or graduation day, etc.

 

[Reformed Thomist]

Just picked up the commentaries on 2 Corinthians, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus & Philemon in one volume (Eerdmans paperback). I'm not big on paperbacks, but I had to get it; about $13 brand new at a discount Christian bookstore on campus (the market price is $38).

 

[PresbyDane]

Good deal

 

[steven-nemes]

I just preordered a 500th Anniversary set of the commentaries (due out now in June) for $120 (including a matching 500th Anniversary edition of the Institutes).

Where from? That's a good price....