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Calvin keeps pressing the same central nerve—if Christ is sufficient, anything added to Him becomes dangerous—and here he turns directly to purgatory, calling it not a harmless speculation but a destructive invention that shifts satisfaction for sin away from the blood of Christ and onto something else entirely. He refuses to treat it as a minor issue, arguing that once you allow expiation to happen anywhere outside of Christ, you undermine the gospel at its core. From there he dismantles the Scripture passages often used to support it, showing that they either refer to the guilt of sin, earthly reconciliation, or the final judgment—not some intermediate place of cleansing—and he exposes how loosely and creatively those texts have been handled. He even challenges the use of sources l ...