Translator’s Preface
Calvin quotations that Barth left in Latin or French, however, have been put into English. Many of the editorial notes have been shortened, some of the footnotes reworked, and datings adapted to the more familiar style of month first. Where the Swiss edition offers in the notes full Latin passages from Calvin, only the references are given. The structure of the work has been altered slightly in form to provide a more balanced presentation. Readers who wish to check Barth’s analysis of the 1536 Institutes will find help in the translation (with introduction) which EF L. Battles published in 1975 under the title Institution of the Christian Religion, which uses the original 1536 Basel edition as well as CR and OS, and which usefully includes as well the 1532 Cop address and the 1534 placards.
We present this English version in the hope and confidence that it will make a significant contribution to the study and appreciation of both Calvin and Barth and that at the same time it will prove of personal interest and profit to all who read it.
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