By John Calvin
Less than the supervision of John McNeill, a crew of professional Latinists and Calvin students labored to provide what has develop into the definitive English version of the "Institutes". All prior versions have been consulted; references and notes have been established; and new bibliographies have been further. the interpretation itself preserves the energy and vividness of Calvin's prose, whereas now not flinching from breaking apart overly lengthy sentences to comply to trendy English utilization, or, anywhere attainable, rendering technical theological phrases in basic language.
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Beveridge, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Edinburgh, 1845) I. lxvi. Xlii INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION value as texts only. O. Weber's German translation from the Latin (one-volume edition, 1955) and J. Cadier's modernization of the 1560 French (four volumes, 1955-1958) are provided with analytical headings and classified indexes. A Japanese translation from the Latin, by Masaki Nakayama, was published in Tokyo in 1934 and was reprinted in 1949. V Readers of the present translation will welcome somewhat fuller reference to the first English form of the Institutes.
Warfield's valuable essay, "On the Literary History of Calvin's Institutes/'24 was inserted; and in the 1936 edition (timed with reference to the four hundred years since Calvin's first edition), Thomas C. " Allen's text has undergone several minor revisions at the hands of American editors, notably that of Joseph Paterson Engles in 1841. Allen's version was not long without competition. In 1845 appeared The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin. A New Translation by Henry Beveridge.
28 In the preparation of Vautrollier's edition of the Latin Institutes he had the editorial assistance of Edmund Bunney. A special feature of this excellent edition is the elaborate set of marginal references to the Loci communes and other works of Peter Martyr Vermigli. The Loci communes is a work put together in 1575 from notes left by Peter Martyr (d. 1562) and "arranged according to Calvin's system" by Robert Masson, a French minister in London. It appeared in London in 1576; it was reprinted in 1580 and (by Vautrollier) in 1583.