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is sometimes legitimate and sometimes illegitimate. It is legitimate when it is performed by those who have the right of vocation to call good men to propagate sound doctrine. It is illegitimate, however, when it is performed by those who do not have the right to call, or if they do have it, they place impious and unlearned men in charge, or the false teachers themselves inject themselves into the office of their own accord.

That ministers must be certain of their vocation.

2. Furthermore, because the Apostle asserts his vocation with such constancy, we must learn that we ought to be certain of our own vocation. For it contributes to the integrity of conscience and the alacrity of teaching if a vocation has not been procured by any arts, but we have approached it through ordinary means.

3. Thirdly, it is permitted for us to glory in our vocation in its proper place and time, just as here the Apostle opposes his vocation to false teachers with great freedom of speech, and prefers himself to them because he was called by God, while they were called by men, or perhaps even injected themselves into this office of their own accord.

4. Fourthly, this is an outstanding passage concerning the divinity of Christ. For since he testifies that he was not called by men, but affirms that he was called by Christ, it follows that Christ is something greater than a man. Therefore, he is God. But you might say: he joins Christ to God and separates him from men; therefore he is not man. We deny this. The concluding clause declares that he is man: who raised him from the dead. He could not be raised unless he had first been dead; if he is dead, it was necessary that he was mortal.