More Atrocious than Being Killed at Home

John Calvin, commenting on Exodus 21:22-25:


The fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being (homo), and it is almost a monstrous crime to rob it of life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man’s house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.


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Published on October 06, 2012 03:10
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