John 11:26
Perpetual Life
This is the exposition of the second clause, how Christ is the life; and he is so, because he never permits the life which he has once bestowed to be lost, but preserves it to the end. For since flesh is so frail, what would become of men if, after having once obtained life, they were afterwards left to themselves? The perpetuity of the life must, therefore, be founded on the power of Christ himself, that he may complete what he has begun.
The reason why it is said that believers never die is that their souls, being born again of incorruptible seed (1 Peter 1:23), have Christ dwelling in them, from whom they derive perpetual vigor. For though the body be subject to death on account of sin, yet the spirit is life on account of righteousness (Romans 8:10). That the outward man daily decays in them is so far from taking anything away from their true life, that it aids the progress of it, because the inward man is renewed from day to day (2 Corinthians 4:16). What is still more, death itself is a sort of emancipation from the bondage of death.
Readings taken from Day by Day With John Calvin
Perpetual Life
This is the exposition of the second clause, how Christ is the life; and he is so, because he never permits the life which he has once bestowed to be lost, but preserves it to the end. For since flesh is so frail, what would become of men if, after having once obtained life, they were afterwards left to themselves? The perpetuity of the life must, therefore, be founded on the power of Christ himself, that he may complete what he has begun.
The reason why it is said that believers never die is that their souls, being born again of incorruptible seed (1 Peter 1:23), have Christ dwelling in them, from whom they derive perpetual vigor. For though the body be subject to death on account of sin, yet the spirit is life on account of righteousness (Romans 8:10). That the outward man daily decays in them is so far from taking anything away from their true life, that it aids the progress of it, because the inward man is renewed from day to day (2 Corinthians 4:16). What is still more, death itself is a sort of emancipation from the bondage of death.
Readings taken from Day by Day With John Calvin
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