John Calvin (1509–1564) was a French theologian who became the leading figure of the Reformation in Geneva. Trained in law and humanist scholarship, he published the first edition of his Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536, at twenty-six, and spent his life preaching, lecturing, and organizing the Genevan church. His commentaries on nearly the whole Bible and the final 1559 Institutes anchor our Reformed collection.
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The fifth and concluding volume of John Calvin's commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, in Henry Beveridge's English translation. With the Lamentations, Calvin lingers over Jerusalem's grief, teaching the church how to mourn over sin and judgment without despairing of God's mercy. A sober, tender close to one of the largest of all Calvin's works of exposition.