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A Firm Foundation: An Aid to Interpreting the Heidelberg Catechism is unavailable, but you can change that!

This commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism offers comfort from God’s Word in our troubled times. In this edition, Olevianus comments on the Lord’s Days 5 through 24. This study—aimed towards pastors, students, and laypeople—is edited by one of the most competent scholars on this subject.

is death” (Rom. 6[:23]). Since, therefore, Christ arises out of all our sin as a victor in our flesh (which He assumed and forever retains), this is public testimony to us that we are considered as pure and righteous in the eyes of God as Christ Jesus was when He arose from the grave (Rom. 423; 1 Cor. 15:17). Along with that, God through Christ both promises us in the gospel and then actually gives us the Holy Spirit. The Spirit turns our hearts from sin and from the kingdom of the Devil to Himself,
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