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

Idle Bellies

We must observe, however, with what titles of distinction he honors pastors.

In the first place, he says that they labor. From this it follows, that all idle bellies are excluded from the number of pastors.

John Calvin
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