To: Natural Law; Desdemona
Cottret, Bernard (2000), Calvin: A Biography, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, ISBN 0-8028-3159-1 Translation from the original Calvin: Biographie, Editions Jean-Claude Lattès, 1995.
Calvin took a prosaic view on the issue of his own marriage, writing to one correspondent, "I, who have the air of being so hostile to celibacy, I am still not married and do not know whether I will ever be. If I take a wife it will be because, being better freed from numerous worries, I can devote myself to the Lord.
Nothing about love. He was looking for somebody to just do his chores for him.
To: Titanites
Very interesting. LOl! I sometimes wonder how many men marry just to have a mother-figure in their lives who will take care of them.
12 posted on
06/26/2010 3:56:12 PM PDT by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Titanites
Nothing about love. He was looking for somebody to just do his chores for him. Well, he certainly didn't need anybody to trim his beard for him. I wonder if he was the prototype (minus the sunglasses) for ZZ Top? I suppose that in between condemning people, humiliating people and killing people, that there was no time for personal hygiene...
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06/26/2010 6:45:59 PM PDT by
MarkBsnr
( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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