the assertion that this “Son” differs in no single particular from “God”: He is God in the full height of the conception of God. It is not, however, the success or lack of success of Calvin’s exegesis which most interests us at present. It is rather two facts which his exegetical argument brings before us with peculiar force. The one of them is that the developed doctrine of the Trinity lay so firmly entrenched in his mind that he makes it, almost or perhaps quite unconsciously, the major premise
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