Calvin: being the Body

Thursday, July 2, 2026
Meditation:
    This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
    —John 15:12 (KJV)
Quotation:
    We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament if this thought has been impressed and engraved upon our minds: that none of the brethren can be injured, despised, rejected, abused, or in any way offended by us, without [our] injuring, despising, and abusing Christ by the wrongs we do; that we cannot disagree with our brethren without at the same time disagreeing with Christ; that we cannot love Christ without loving Him in the brethren; that we ought to take the same care of our brethren’s bodies as we take of our own; for they are members of our body; and that, as no part of our body is touched by any feeling of pain which is not spread among all the rest, so we ought not to allow a brother to be affected by any evil, without being touched with compassion for him.
    ... John Calvin (1509-1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion, v. I [1559], tr. John Allen, Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work, 1921, IV.xvii.38, p. 573 (see the book)
    See also John 15:12; 13:34-35; 1 Cor. 10:16-17; Gal. 6:2; Phil. 2:1-2; 1 Pet. 1:22; 1 John 3:11,23; 4:7-8,11-12; 2 John 1:5
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, bind our fellowship together in love. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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