Francis Turretin on positives and negatives in the Decalogue

[Reformed Covenanter]

... Hence since a good precept cannot be performed by the law without its opposite evil being avoided (nor a prohibited evil be shunned without its opposite good being performed), it follows that in the affirmative precepts negative are contained, and in the negative affirmative ...

For more, see Francis Turretin on positives and negatives in the Decalogue.

 

[PuritanCovenanter]

I felt like a little kid when someone says poop. I giggled knowing this would be misunderstood.

Not that the law is to be considered as a Lesbian rule (to be made to mean anything), but that we may search more deeply into the meaning of the lawgiver and embrace those things which are mutually connected or depend upon each other.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

Apparently, it refers to Lesbos in Greece. I have laughed to myself a few times when I have seen "Lesbian rule" in Turretin and others.