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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Calvin on Being an Elder

It is no light matter to be a representative of the Son of God, in discharging an office of such magnitude, the object of which is to erect and extend the kingdom of God, to procure the salvation of souls which the Lord himself hath purchased with his own blood, and to govern the Church, which is God’s inheritance.

John Calvin
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