Evening Prayer (1662 Book of Common Prayer)

LECTIONS. John Calvin on the Psalms. ISBE: Genesis. Keil: Genesis. Keil & Delitzsch: Joshua. Matthew Henry: Isaiah. ISBE: Matthew. Jamieson, Fausset & Brown: Gospels. Romans: Prof. Hodge. Matthew Henry: Revelation. Prof. Hodge: Systematic Theology. Dr. Robert Reymond: Systematic Theology. Prof. Berkhof, Systematic Theology: Soteriology. Dr. Philip Schaff, Apostolic Christianity, Medieval Christianity, Swiss Reformation and Creeds of Christendom. EDT. CCC. Westminster Larger Catechism, 91-93.

For Psalm 17, Prof. Calvin comments on David’s frustration with the prosperous who are godless.

ISBE on Genesis: Prof. R. K. Harrison further discusses the Sumerian context for Genesis.

For Genesis 1: Prof. Keil comments on the creation days.

For Joshua 18, Joshua gives another geography lesson on allocations to Benjamin. Prof. Keil does not want for detailed research.

For Isaiah 5.8-17, Prof. Henry comments on the poor inheriting the land after the Babylonians divest the property-owners of homes and lands in the Conquest.

ISBE on Matthew: Dr. Dagner commented, again un-notably, on Matthew’s audience.

For Mathew 4.1-11, Prof. Jamiesson finally finished the Temptation, noting gloriously, the final assault in the Garden of Gethsemane. To wit, Satan’s strategic assaults on Christ’s Person and, if possible, His definitive work.

For Romans, Prof. Hodge finished 1.17 and gave doctrinal point #1 about ministerial authority, vocation, duties, ends and means.

For Revelation 12.12-17, Prof. Henry reads the section. Comments tomorrow on the on-going battle of the ages.

For Systematic Theology, Prof. Hodge sets the table for the brief discussion of the traditional six loci of systematic theology.

For Theology Proper, Prof. Reymond is beside himself. Nothing more shall be said. He has a quirkiness at times that is grating and overdone. Move along, Professor to the next point on God’s immutability.

For Soteriology, Prof. Berkhof stresses that sanctification is still a work of God, noting that Americans stress themselves by themselves and for themselves. While synergistic, God as the Source cannot be dismissed or minimized by untheological minds.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (0-100) Prof. Schaff holds forth magnificently and incomparably on the “Star of the Magi.”

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1049), Prof. Schaff speaks of the Christianization of the Bulgarians down to 865.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff describes the final months of Bullinger, his losses, his deep affections for all around him, and his training of his next four successors. England lamented his death in 1575. Of course, to the Greeks and Romanists, he was a heretic and a man to be spit upon.

EDT on process theology: the philosophical, non-Biblical, non-confessional, so called “liberal,” and evolutionary theological system. Put another way, God’s “on the assembly line being made in the manufacturing plant, the new and improved model, not the Ford Model-T.”  

For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff begins to explore the 80 denunciations of heresies by Pope Pius 9, said to include, but not limited to: Non-Romanists as heretics. Have the 20^th-21^st century ecumenists never read nor heard these things, infallibly written? Guess not.

CCC: we continue to see the minimization of the effects of the fall, as the Curia enthuses about the natural man. Can Paul in Romans please get a voice?

Westminster Larger Catechism 91-03:

Q. 91. What is the duty which God requireth of man?
A. The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will.

Q. 92. What did God first reveal unto man as the rule of his obedience?
A. The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in the estate of innocence, and to all mankind in him, besides a special command not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, was the moral law.

Q. 93. What is the moral law?
A. The moral law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind, directing and binding every one to personal, perfect, and perpetual conformity and obedience thereunto, in the frame and disposition of the whole man, soul, and body, and in performance of all those duties of holiness and righteousness which he oweth to God and man: promising life upon the fulfilling, and threatening death upon the breach of it.