tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33440633.post1156332961075080021..comments2023-03-28T23:50:17.723-04:00Comments on Old First: The Humor of John CalvinOld Firsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02450204955608047437noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33440633.post-82516576087937619672018-10-01T14:34:45.939-04:002018-10-01T14:34:45.939-04:00I stumbled upon this too. I am reading an exchange...I stumbled upon this too. I am reading an exchange between Calvin and Bishop Sadoleto for my Reformation History Class. There is a great line where Calvin has just got done blistering Sadoleto for his false love for the Genevan people, and then he says something along the lines of...<br />"Some people might say these things (all the insults he just said) but I would never..." My paraphraseReshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33440633.post-79226043219370900632009-02-03T11:37:00.000-05:002009-02-03T11:37:00.000-05:00Here's some more from Calvin500 blog:“I consider l...Here's some more from Calvin500 blog:<BR/><BR/>“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.”<BR/><BR/>“Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.”polymathishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13122383984552473728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33440633.post-50430928874797591932008-08-28T11:45:00.000-04:002008-08-28T11:45:00.000-04:00Hey, I stumbled on here after doing some research ...Hey, I stumbled on here after doing some research for my history dissertation on Woodrow Wilson. I also found that Calvin was a bit of an insult comic, too! Here's what I found so far, both from Institutes:<BR/><BR/>I, XI, 4: “For whence came the beginning of idols but from the opinion of men? Most just is that profane poet’s mockery: ‘Once I was a little fig tree trunk, a useless bit of wood, when the workman, in doubt whether he should make a stool, preferred that I be a god,’ etc.”<BR/><BR/>I, XIV, 1: “When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world, the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.”Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12830676637160984572noreply@blogger.com