# “Our eternal country” by John Calvin

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- Published: 2025-12-24T08:00:00-06:00
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“We see, at the same time, what sort of beginning the life of the Son of God had,
and in what cradle He was placed. (**Luke 2:7**)

Such was His condition at His birth, because He had taken upon Him our flesh for
this purpose, that He might ‘_empty Himself_‘ (**Phil. 2:7**) on our account.

When He was thrown into a stable, and placed in a manger, and a lodging refused 
Him among men, it was that heaven might be opened to us, not as a temporary lodging,
but as our eternal country and inheritance, and that angels might receive us into
their abode.”

-John Calvin, Ed. William Pringle, _**[Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists Matthew, Mark, and Luke, vol. 1](https://amzn.to/4jbNA5w)**_(
Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2024), 1: 112. Calvin is commenting on **Luke 2:1-7**.

[⌊Calvin's Commentary on the Gospels, Vol. 1⌉⌊Calvin's Commentary on the Gospels,
Vol. 1⌉[

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