Brevis admonitio Joannis Calvini ad fratres Polonos, ne triplicem in Deo essentiam pro tribus personis imaginando, tres sibi Deos fabricent

name. How will these points agree with each other, that Christ is rightly invoked and yet is not the God who demands that sacrifice of praise through David? That invention is therefore overthrown, that Scripture speaks distinctly of the Father and the Son everywhere, since it often commemorates the single deity of both under the one name of Jehovah. But where the Son is joined to the Father, it is not surprising that a Person is attributed to each. Although the table-maker, while he strives to heap together a great mass of evidence, badly distorts some passages. I know that the ancients interpreted that passage of Moses thus, “The Lord rained from the Lord,” but since the name of Jehovah is expressed in both clauses, the sense would in no way fit if the Father rained from the Son. Rather, so that Moses may better demonstrate the formidable vengeance of God, he repeats the name of the eternal God a second time. Thus, where it is said that God made man in the image of God, it is foolish to seek a distinction between the Persons. As for the sentence taken from the first chapter of John, the Son is indeed distinguished from the Father, in that he was with God, but when it is added
Gen. 19

Gen. 1