"These commandments—“Do not take vengeance; love your enemies,” which were once delivered to all Jews and then to all Christians in common—have been turned by the Schoolmen into “counsels,” which we are free either to obey or not to obey. What pestilential ignorance or malice is this!" I had to take a side trip to figure out who the "Schoolmen" were. One of those things everyone of Calvin's day would know, I guess.
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Institutes of the Christian Religion II, viii, 56Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volumes 1 & 2
aThese commandments—“Do not take vengeance; love your enemies,” which were once delivered to all Jews and then to all Christians in common—have been turned by the Schoolmen into “counsels,” which we are free either to obey or not to obey. What pestilential ignorance or malice is this! Moreover, they have saddled the requirement to obey these “counsels” upon the monks, even more righteous in this one respect than simple Christians because they voluntarily bound themselves
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