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Calvin's Institutes: February 17
In today’s reading, Calvin presses us into a kind of self-knowledge that is painful but necessary, dismantling every form of pride so that grace alone can stand. He insists that to know ourselves rightly is not to flatter our dignity but to confront our ruin—measuring ourselves not by human judgment but by divine justice, where all confidence in our own powers collapses. From there, he traces the fall of Adam not to mere sensual excess, but to infidelity: a refusal to trust God’s word, which opened the door to pride, ambition, rebellion, and finally the collapse of the entire created order…
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