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, 110.

For Psalm 18, Prof. Calvin comments on metaphors for God in terms of atmospheric things, clouds, sunshine and the like.

ISBE on Genesis: Prof. R. K. Harrison discusses the title “Exodus” as a title from LXX.

For Genesis 1: Prof. Keil begins a discussion of day 2, the firmament and skies.

For Joshua 19, Joshua gives more about land distribution to Naphtali.

For Isaiah 5.8-17, Prof. Henry notes that when God “hisses” or “whistles” for one nation to punish another, the dispatched army will be efficacious and hasty.

ISBE on Mark: Dr. R. P. Martin notes that Mark has had something of a messy history, being switched around in the line-up of the 4 gospels. In one canonical list, it’s #4. In our text, it’s #2. Nevertheless, it has had unanimous consent as to canonicity.

For Mathew 4.12-25, Prof. Jamiesson notes that Jesus preaches in synagogues, but also did “open-air” preaching.

For Romans, Prof. Hodge gives the overview to chapter 2—dealing with the self-righteous, the law, and circumcision.

For Revelation 13.11-18, Prof. Henry finished Revelation 13 with comments about 666, the mark of the Beast. We might want to discuss Hartshorne’s Process Theology. The Beast would like that theological downgrade of God.

In the Global Anglican, Dr. Foster finished his notes on liberation theology in Latin America; tomorrow, he will move on to Pentecostalism in Latin America.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge essentially equates the Rationalist and the Dogmatic Rationalist, both relying on reason as the arbiter of truth. The Reformed rely on the Holy Spirit speaking in, by and through Scripture and authenticating His own revelation.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond finished discussing God’s infinite power and turns to God’s infinite, eternal and unchangeable holiness.

For Ecclesiology (locus 6), Prof. Berkhof notes that Rome starts systematics with the Doctrine of the Church.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (0-100) Prof. Schaff continues to discuss the 1-4 year variants on the life of Christ’s ministry.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff discusses Luther’s hymn about the “murdering Pope and Turk.” Or, the collect for Good Friday in the BCP, “to have mercy on all Turks, Jews, Infidels and Heretics.” While assessing the Allacracy, clinging to Allah and their camels (our phrase), he notes that Spanish Moors brought academics to the West, including Aristotle, thus laying the groundwork for the impersonal Scholastic Period.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff discusses William Farel background, including the academy with an MA in 1512 as a student of Faber.

EDT on Process Theology: upshot—God is “making progress.” More techno-babble to insult classical theism. The two Beasts of Revelation 13 would be pleased at Hartshorne bearing the mark 666.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff in 1.145, footnotes 1-2 regales us with hilarious stories of ignorance, superstition, intolerance and passion in the Council, tempered by the academic and learned French and German Bishops. However, footnotes 1-2 are worth the purchase of the volume. There were some ignorant yahoos as Bishops, including one from Sicily. The American Bishop claimed he now had seen an assembly more raucous than the US House of Representatives.

1994 CCC: as is expected from Romanists, the doctrine of the church is always first in order, unlike Reformed treatments of ecclesiology predicated on soteriology. So, as expected, we get the self-affirming baffle-gabbing about the Magisterium, Papal dogmas and the docility required of its adherents.

Westminster Larger Catechism 110:

Q. 110. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it?
A. The reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it, contained in these words, For I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments; are, besides God's sovereignty over us, and propriety in us, his fervent zeal for his own worship, and his revengeful indignation against all false worship, as being a spiritual whoredom; accounting the breakers of this commandment such as hate him, and threatening to punish them unto divers generations; and esteeming the observers of it such as love him and keep his commandments, and promising mercy to them unto many generations.