Valuable collection of wisdom from one of the most enlightened periods of church history. The following comment is not meant to detract from the quality of the book but a theological comment on the reformer Kaspar Olevianus' statement "Christianity is not a form of Judaism, ..." As a Christian of Jewish ethnicity, I differ with that view. Christianity is the new covenant of Judaism which is open to both Jews and Gentiles to become coequal children of God. Paul uses the illustration of a tree with some natural branches (i.e., some Jews) broken off and wild branches (Gentiles) grafted in. The roots and the trunk are Jewish, and they are not dead. Similarly, Jeremiah 31:31-34 prophesied of a new covenant with the house of Israel (Jews) wherein God writes his law on their hearts, which is Christ indwelling the believer. Hebrews 7:22 and 8:6 refer to a "better covenant" for the Jews (to whom the epistle was addressed) through Jesus, and Paul in Romans 1:18 says the Gospel is to "the Jew first" and also to the Greek. The Apostles were all Jews - they would have been appalled at the suggestion that their identity as Jews was terminated and they were now members of a brand new religion. If Judaism contains within it the promise of a new and better covenant (Jeremiah), one which was modeled by Abraham, the founder of the Jewish faith, in Genesis 15:6 (his faith was accounted to him as righteousness by God), then if anything is terminated it is not Judaism, but merely the temporary Mosaic covenant of the law. Judaism refers to both phases of God's revelation to his people: the law and the Gospel.