# “The only remedy for false teaching” by John Calvin

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- Published: 2009-07-07T14:56:56-05:00
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“Again Paul returns to thanksgiving, that he may take this opportunity of enumerating
the blessings which had been conferred upon them through Christ, and thus he enters
upon a full delineation of Christ. For this was the only remedy for fortifying the
Colossians against all the snares, by which the false Apostles endeavored to entrap
them– to understand accurately who Christ was. For how comes it that we are carried
about with so many strange doctrines, but because the excellence of Christ is not
perceived by us?

For Christ alone makes all other things suddenly vanish. Hence there is nothing 
that Satan so much endeavors to accomplish as to bring on mists with the view of
obscuring Christ, because he knows, that by this means the way is opened up for 
every kind of falsehood. This, therefore, is the only means of retaining, as well
as restoring pure doctrine: to place Christ before the view such as He is with all
His blessings, that His excellence may be truly perceived.”

–John Calvin, commenting on Colossians 1:12 in _Commentaries on the Epistles of 
Paul the Apostle to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians_, trans. William
Pringle (repr. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003), 145-146.

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