bidding.”25 Calvin saw the solution to this problem in the correct understanding of the relation of foreknowledge, providence, and predestination. Reflecting upon Proverbs 16:4, Calvin wrote: “Behold! Since the disposition of all things is in God’s hand, since the decision of salvation or of death rests in his power, he so ordains by his plan and will that among men some are born destined for certain death from the womb, who glorify his name by their own destruction.… Both life and death are acts
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