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I’ve written before about G.M. Giger’s translation of Francis Turretin’s Institutes of Elenctic Theology, here, here, and here. Here is another one. At issue in this present foray is a passage on Scripture from Institutes 2.4.6: Scriptura seipsam Divinam probat, non modo authoritative et per modum argumenti inartificialis seu Testimonii, quando se θεόπνεῦστον vocat; quod […]
Another passage on the “Sinaitic legal covenant” that perhaps could be a little clearer in Giger’s translation. This is paragraph 24, the penultimate paragraph in the section. First, here is Giger: “The promise of the land of Canaan given to the people was not primary and principal, but only secondary and less principal (add by […]
So, another sentence in Turretin’s Institutes of Elenctic Theology that struck me as odd in the published English translation (the translation itself is a little awkward and less clear than it might be, but I think that it is the punctuation in particular that was causing me difficulties). It comes at the end of the 15th […]
I remarked previously that Irenaeus considers the content of the natural law and the Decalogue to be identical. This is pretty standard stuff generally and is the standard position of the Reformed tradition. Turretin, for instance, teaches it in his Institutes of Elenctic Theology. First, Turretin describes the moral law as “the pattern of God’s image […]