“The brightness of Christ is so great that it easily extinguishes all the glories of the world, if indeed it irradiates our eyes.

It hence follows, that Christ is little esteemed by us, when the admiration of worldly glory lays hold on us.”

–John Calvin, Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2010), 301. Calvin is commenting on James 2:1.

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