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A drink before a brawl any day!
A drink before a brawl any day!
Honestly, I have no idea what this means. Would you mind posting a de-code for the newly reformed like me?
Thanks.
Mike, you're gonna find that people come down on different sides of this issue. However, it's important to realize that everyone holds that the original manuscripts of the Institutes, both in the French and the Latin, were directly inspired by Calvin himself and therefore infallible (except for some passages on head coverings and possibly the Sabbath, but we really don't know). From there you'll see some groups that maintain a McNeill-Battles-Only stance, insisting that the extra reference numbers in the MB text were part of the original manuscripts and therefore quite imperative to the reader's sanctification. Plus they tend to like two books instead of one as it fills the bookshelf nicely. Those who prefer the Beveridge and others will counter that all of Calvin's doctrine is consistent even with the most recent translations. They will add that there is no proof that these extra reference numbers even existed in the original manuscripts and that some of the earliest copies showed no evidence of them. It should also be known that there are a few hardliners that will only read translations from the Latin version as we all know that French is just silly.