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John Calvin on Revelation

Institutes of the Christian Religion, tr. Ford Lewis Battles and ed. John T. McNeill (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960, orig. 1536), I, xiii, 1, p. 146.

For how can the human mind measure off the measureless essence of God according to its own little measure, a mind as yet unable to establish for certain the nature of the sun’s body, though men’s eyes daily gaze upon it? Let us then willingly leave to God the knowledge of himself … But we shall be “leaving it to him” if we conceive him to be as he reveals himself to us, without inquiring about him elsewhere than from his Word.