‘A wolf is not only turned into a sheep, but doth also take to himself a shepherd’s nature. It is as if Christ should bring forth with his hand some angel sent from heaven.’
John Calvin (1509-64), Commentary, (Acts 9:1-5).
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Notes from the Compiler
On the day when the Church celebrates the conversion of S. Paul (25th January) it is good to remember the miraculous change it made in the life of one who not only did not believe in Jesus but hated his followers. John Calvin captures symbolically the change from wolf to sheep, and from sheep to shepherd. Former Archbishop Rowan Williams (b.1950) put it like this: 'To hear the good news of salvation, to be converted, is to turn back to the condemned and rejected, acknowledging that there is hope nowhere else.'
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