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For seeing that in the cross, death, and burial of Christ, nothing but weakness appears, faith must go beyond all these, in order that it may be with full strength. Hence, although in his death we have an effectual completion of salvation, because we are reconciled to God by it, satisfaction is given to his justice, the curse is removed, and the penalty paid. Still, it is not by his death, but by his resurrection that we are said to be begotten again to a living hope (1 Peter 1:3). . . Our salvation may be thus divided between the death and the resurrection of Christ; by the former sin was abolished and death annihilated; by the latter righteousness was restored and life revived, the power and efficacy of the former being still bestowed upon us by means of the latter. . . Not that faith founded merely on his death is vacillating, but that the divine power by which he maintains our faith is most conspicuous in his resurrection.
God The Redeemer (Book 2 of the Institutes) - John Calvin
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