Heresy and Scripture
The misuse of Scripture by heretics (Calvin, Lutherans, Anabaptists) and the necessity for Catholic theologians to know Scripture well enough to refute them with their own weapons. Knowledge of Hebrew idioms and patristic interpretation is essential to escape heretical constructions.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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I. The Old Testament Establishes Faith
— Calvin constructs reprobation from "I will harden the heart of Pharaoh" and bondage of the will from Jeremiah's potter analogy.
"Calvin, from that saying of David... proves (as he thinks) that God is the author, indeed the commander, of evil deeds; from that passage of Exodus... he constructs the inevitable fate of his reprobation"
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I. The Old Testament Establishes Faith
— Saxon Lutherologists placed the entire weight of their case for Scripture alone against traditions on Deuteronomy 4:2 and 12:32.
"the Saxon Lutherologists and babblers, in the Regensburg disputation, placed the entire weight of their case... on that passage of Deuteronomy 4:2"
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I. The Old Testament Establishes Faith
— Whoever does not know what the Hebrew "tsava" means will not escape Calvin's clutches; knowledge of Hebraisms is needed to refute heretics.
"whoever knows the Hebraism, namely that tsava means to ordain, to provide, to dispose... will blow away this weapon like a spider's web"
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— Bellarmine's Controversies is impenetrable and incomparable as a wall and bulwark of Catholic truth against heretics.
"the most illustrious Bellarmine, champion of the faith and overthrower of heresies, did solidly and exactly in his Controversies — a work therefore impenetrable and incomparable"