# Commentary on Romans is published as a dated exegetical book from the Strasbourg years Date: 1540 ## The fact In 1540 [Calvin](/people/john-calvin)’s Commentary on Romans appeared as a dated exegetical book from the Strasbourg exile years. It is not the Institutes revision as a twin and not the Geneva Academy. It is one event. ## Context Exile teaching produced print. CCEL and the Cambridge Companion independently treat the Romans commentary as a major 1540 instrument. Later English is a carrier. John Calvin’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Conventional years are 1509–1564. Surviving public files are later museum pages, consistory editions, Meeter Center collections, and encyclopedias. Calvin did not typeset those later pages. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources CCEL’s Calvin Romans commentary page and the Cambridge Companion independently describe the 1540 publication. Official or archival record: Calvin, Commentary on Romans — CCEL (https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom38; Christian Classics Ethereal Library). ## Significance Education-access path. High confidence on the 1540 commentary. ## What is established and what is not Established: the Romans commentary was published in 1540. Not established: a unique literacy rate from one book. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by John Calvin. They are not a public rating. John Calvin did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Romans 1540 is not the 1559 Academy. Keep exegesis off June 1559. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of John Calvin. John Calvin did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Romans 1540 is not the 1559 Academy. Keep exegesis off June 1559. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of John Calvin. ## People - John Calvin: https://factrail.ai/people/john-calvin ## Drivers - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom38 - https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521816475 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-romans-commentary-1540