Evening Prayer

For Psalm 22, Prof. Calvin discusses the great gravity of David’s afflictions, yet his faith.

ISBE on the dating of Exodus: Prof. R. K. Harrison discusses Amenhotep II’s execution of Semite kings and the parading of those heads up-and-down the Nile.

For Genesis 6.9-22: Prof. Keil opens the discussion of the Flood narrative.

For Judges 3.7ff., Prof. Keil discusses Caleb, Othniel and Cushan-Rishathaim.

For Isaiah 9.1-7, Prof. Henry discusses judgment and mercy and that a Child shall be born called Immanuel, a Messianic hope and prediction.

ISBE on Luke: Dr. E. E. Ellis discusses the historical-destructive destroyers and Luke.

For Mathew 6.14, Prof. Jamieson discusses deliverance from evil.

For Romans 5.1-11, Prof. Hodge focuses on the consequence of gratuitous justification: peace with heaven, assurance of future glory, afflictions conducive to growth, perseverance of the saints, and these gifts in the present and future.

For Revelation 21.1-8, Prof. Henry speaks of the new heavens and new earth. All sorrows and pains are gone.

EDT on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831): turns theology into philosophy with God as the Absolute.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge tosses Vatican 1 under the bus.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond discusses the libboes-destroyers, E. Zeller and Haenchen who turn Luke into a forgerer of falsehoods who has jazzed-up the narrative of the Pentecost.

For Ecclesiology (locus 6), Prof. Berkhof initiates the discussion of Passover as an atonement feast but also a meal of thanksgiving.

ODCC: Original Sin: discusses Anselm’s view of “privation of righteousness which all men ought have” (implied ability?), Abelard’s denial of “guilt” condemned at a Council of Sens (1140) and Aquinas’s optimistic view allowing fallen man his natural powers of reason, will, and passions unaffected, although the supernatural privileges are lost.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff discusses Pentecost as inward activization and empowerment from the Holy Spirit.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff gives the reviews by Hallam, Gibbon and others on Charlemagne—lusty, immoral, murderous, and yet clutching to the church and elevating the man in Rome.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff discusses Calvin’s Institution with plaudits.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch (90) gives us the hilarious account of Cranmer’s obsequious letters to Henry as a “poor wretch and most unworthy” person to be ABC. The “great scandal discussed throughout Christendom” must be ended. Quite laughable.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff begins to discuss the origin of the 1530 Augsburg Confession, an effort by Charles V to unite Papes and Prots against the Turks on the southern boundaries.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #394-396 discusses the fall of angels, noting that the power of Satan is a creature and limited and that it is a great mystery of providence to permit diabolical activity. This is infinitely better than Prottie libboes-destroyers and theo-relativizers.

Westminster Larger Catechism 185:

Q. 185. How are we to pray?
A. We are to pray with an awful apprehension of the majesty of God, and deep sense of our own unworthiness, necessities, and sins; with penitent, thankful, and enlarged hearts; with understanding, faith, sincerity, fervency, love, and perseverance, waiting upon him, with humble submission to his will.