Calvin & Wine
Posted: April 27, 2011 Filed under: John Calvin 2 CommentsReading Calvin in His Letters a fun piece where John Calvin uses a cask of wine to try and lure a friend to join him in Geneva…
When he would induce his friend M. de Falais to come to Geneva and take up his abode there, he slyly adds that he has laid in a cask of good wine for his benefit. “I wish very much that it may please God to bring you hither to drink of the wine upon the spot and that soon. If the bearer had left this earlier in the morning, you might have had a flask of it. If there were any means of sending you the half of it, I should not have failed to do so, but when I inquired, I found that it could not be done.” Calvin, we see, had some very human traits.
Taken from Henry Henderson, Calvin in His Letters (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), 27.
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I enjoyed that book. So many good reads in that collection from Logos. The wine bribe was a pretty funny one. I wrote about it a few weeks ago on Calvin500 ;o)