Calvin also developed a radically biblical theology. However, he insisted that the biblical witness itself set the limits not just of terminology but of content and that therefore any comfort had to be found within the totality of that witness. What appeared to Melanchthon as speculation was for Calvin faithfulness. And Melanchthon’s moderatio, for all its appeal, could only be construed by Calvin as timidity or, worse yet, the result of philosophical scruples. It is finally this hermeneutical divide