Would you compare some translations on Calvin's Christian life?

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lumenite

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A couple of months ago Ligonier published a new(?) book called, A Little Book on the Christian Life. It comes from Calvin's Institutes 3:6-10.
Anyone who knows the advantages of this new translation in comparison to the old ones?
The following portions are the beginnings of each translation.

Henry Beveridge:
We have said that the object of regeneration is to bring the life of believers into concord and harmony with the righteousness of God, and so confirm the adoption by which they have been received as sons.

Ford Lewis Battles:
The object of regeneration, as we have said, is to manifest in the life of believers a harmony and agreement between God's righteousness and their obedience, and thus to confirm the adoption that they have received as sons.

Henry J. Van Andel, A Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life:
The goal of the new life is that God's children exhibit melody and harmony in their conduct. What melody? The song of God's justice. What harmony? The harmony between God's righteousness and our obedience. Only if we walk in the beauty of God's law do we become sure of our adoption as children of the Father.

Aaron Clay Denlinger and Burk Parsons, A Little Book on the Christian Life:
The goal of God's work in us is to bring our lives into harmony and agreement with His own righteousness, and so to manifest to ourselves and others our identity as His adopted children.
 
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