Feet-Washing (Pedilavium)

Calvin writes There is no love where there is not a willing slavery in assisting a neighbor.” This has ever been felt to be a basic teaching in the Christian church: however, it was not ever applied in the same way in the church. What was, ev­idently, meant to be a teaching for the whole life of the Christian was changed into a mere rite of feet-washing. What was meant to be of as broad a scope and deep spiritual motive as what Paul teaches in Gal. 5:13 was made a mere matter of imitation of a...