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Later, for Luther, the issue continues to focus on the relation between the Old and New Testaments:

Thus the books of Moses and the prophets are the Gospel, since they have first preached and written of Christ that which the Apostles afterward preached and wrote. Yet there is a distinction between them [the Old and New Testaments]. For although both … have been written out on paper, yet … the New Testament, cannot be said so properly to be written, but to have consisted in the living voice which published it. (Luther, Comm.: ccel.org)

Calvin similarly takes a positive view of the prophets and the Old Testament:

This passage [1 Peter 1:10‐12] has been strangely perverted by fanatics, so as to exclude the fathers, who lived under the Law, from the hope of eternal salvation … but [It] teaches us that … they indeed by faith tasted those things which the Lord has passed on by their hands. (Comm., 1963: 241)