Listening to the Giants

Facts about John Knox:  He remarried a woman named Margaret Stewart (age 17), who was 33 years younger than Knox . 1/5 of his writings were about predestination . John Calvin was his primary mentor. Knox wrote none of his sermons down (only two sermons survived). He was his spiritual father’s bodyguard and carried a broadsword . His son-in-law was in prison for insubordination to the throne. The king asked Elizabeth (Knox’s daughter) to persuade her husband to submit to his authority. Her response: “Please your Majesty, I’d rather have his head here.” Knox is one of the four reformers on the wall of Geneva. The words next to the Scottish reformer, “One man with God is always in the majority.”