Calvin's Exegesis (1500s AD) pg 58

• The Greatest Exegete of the Reformation

• He agreed with Luther;s general principles for necessitated Spiritual illumination.

• Regarded allegorical interpretation as a contrivance of Satan to obscure the sense of Scripture.

• Scripture interprets Scripture.

• First study context, words, and parallel passages.

• “It is the first business of an interpreter to let the author say what he does say, instead of attribution to him what we think he ought to say.”

• Calvin surpassed Luther in aligning his practice with his theory.

• He also disagreed with Luther about finding Christ in every chapter every verse every line. Let the Bible speak.

• The hermeneutical principles articulated by these reformers were to become the guiding principles for modern orthodox Protestant interpretation.

• Baptists still go all the way back to Christ for their guiding principles of hermeneutics, even as anabaptists did throughout the reformation.