“By expounding Scripture as a whole he was forced to deal with the Scriptural range of ideas. And, as an honest interpreter, he labored to represent the thought of the Bible faithfully. He had a horror of those who preached their own ideas in place of the gospel of the Bible: ‘When we enter the pulpit, it is not so that we may bring our own dreams and fancies with us.'”
–T.H.L. Parker, Portrait of Calvin (Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God, 1954), 89.
