01 - IS THE PAPACY STILL THE ANTICHRIST?
John
Calvin (1509-1564)
“Daniel
and Paul had predicted that Anti-Christ would sit in the temple of
God. The head of that cursed and abominable kingdom, in the Western
church, we affirm to be the Pope.” Institutes of the Christian
Religion, bk. 4, ch. 2, sec. 12
“Some
persons think us too severe and censorious when we call the Roman
pontiff Antichrist. But those who are of this opinion do not consider
that they bring the same charge of presumption against Paul himself,
after whom we speak and whose language we adopt…I shall briefly
show that (Pauls words in 2 Thessalonians 2) are not capable of any
other interpretation than that which applies them to the Papacy”
John Calvin, Tracts, Vol. 1, pp. 219,220. John Calvin, Institutes“I
shall briefly show that (Paul’s words in II Thess. 2) are not
capable of any other interpretation than that which applies them to
the Papacy.” John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
(1536)
“Some
persons think us too severe and censorious when we call the Roman
pontiff Antichrist. But those who are of this opinion do not consider
that they bring the same charge of presumption against Paul himself,
after whom we speak and whose language we adopt…I shall briefly
show that (Pauls words in 2 Thessalonians 2) are not capable of any
other interpretation than that which applies them to the Papacy”
John Calvin, Tracts, Vol. 1, pp. 219,220. John Calvin, Institutes
