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Often appears with: pride, vanity, and humility · pride and humility · meekness · justice as a virtue · honoring others’ gifts
Usually: reflection (1) · censure (1)
Calvin portrays self-love as producing pride, contempt of others, and bias toward one’s own talents, but Scripture corrects this by reminding believers of God’s gifts, demanding humility, and urging honor toward others’ gifts to cultivate meekness.
the glories of heaven, and at the same time teaches us that we must live as strangers and pilgrims in the world, that we may not lose the heavenly inheritance. IV. In these words we perceive, that self‐denial relates partly to men, but partly, and indeed principally, to God. For when the Scripture enjoins us to conduct ourselves in such a manner towards men, as in honour to prefer one another, and faithfully to devo…