Footnote 1 offers this definition of the fear of God from Calvin's 1537 Instruction in Faith: "The gist of true piety does not consist in a fear which would gladly flee the judgment of God, but… rather in a pure and true zeal which loves God althogether as Father, and reveres him truly as Lord, embraces his justice and dreads to offend him more than to die."
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