Evening Prayer

For Psalm 22, Prof. Calvin comments on the deep anguishes of David and Jesus.

ISBE on the dating of Exodus: Prof. R. K. Harrison notes how the Exodus would have damaged Egyptian pride and that of Amenhotep.

For Genesis 8.20-9.29: Prof. Keil discusses Noah’s sacrifice, curse, and blessing.

For Judges 4-5, Prof. Keil discusses the oppression by Israel by Jabin and deliverance by Deborah and Barak.

For Isaiah 9.1-7, Prof. Henry comments on the deliverance from temporal oppression, breaking the yoke of sin and Satan and preventing Sennacherib from making himself master of Jerusalem.

ISBE on Luke: Dr. E. E. Ellis comments on Alexandrian and Western textual families.

For Mathew 6.19-34, Prof. Jamieson comments on “lay up your treasures in heaven…”

For Romans 5.1-11, Prof. Hodge comments on “we shall be saved by his life…”

For Revelation 21.9-28, Prof. Henry comments on the blessed safety and happiness of the church in the New Jerusalem above.

Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):”

EDT: Unitarianism: came to NE in 1710 and 1750. Henry Ware, an avowed opponent of Trinitarinism, took the Hollis chair of divinity at Harvard.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge is gutting the claim of apostolic/prelatical puffs to apostolic succession. No command for such. Often, one sees weak, ignorant, and immoral men in top positions.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond discusses Matthew’s Christology.

For Ecclesiology (locus 6), Prof. Berkhof notes comments on the Zwinglian and Reformed view of the LORD’s Supper.

ODCC: Gregory II (669-731): Pope from 715. Confronted by the Saracen threat, he fortified Rome. Also, he sent Boniface to Thuringia, Bavaria and Hesse. He provided protection for the Benedictines.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff is holding a meaningless blab-a-thon on glossolalia. He does cite Briggs as a colleague, the man who was poisoned by Graf-Wellhausen.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff, 256, notes the medieval history is chiefly a history of the Papacy and Empire.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff offers comments from Calvin’ Institutes (3.9.1-6) about the natural inclinations to a brutish love of the world…stupidity, with mental eyes, that are dazzled with vain splendor of riches, honor, and power…avarice and ambition…improper confidence. Vintage Calvin.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch, 100, notes how Cranmer had moved on theologically, but was not an evident or obvious patron of Jesus College. His relations with Dr. Capon?

For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff, 233, speaks of the Augsburg Confession as having a devout, earnest, evangelical Christian spirit.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #425-426 tell us helpfully about Christ as the Center of Confession and Catechesis.

Westminster Larger Catechism 195:

Q. 195. What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
A. In the sixth petition (which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil), acknowledging that the most wise, righteous, and gracious God, for divers holy and just ends, may so order things, that we may be assaulted, foiled, and for a time led captive by temptations; that Satan, the world, and the flesh, are ready powerfully to draw us aside, and ensnare us; and that we, even after the pardon of our sins, by reason of our corruption, weakness, and want of watchfulness, are not only subject to be tempted, and forward to expose ourselves unto temptations, but also of ourselves unable and unwilling to resist them, to recover out of them, and to improve them; and worthy to be left under the power of them; we pray, that God would so overrule the world and all in it, subdue the flesh, and restrain Satan, order all things, bestow and bless all means of grace, and quicken us to watchfulness in the use of them, that we and all his people may by his providence be kept from being tempted to sin; or, if tempted, that by his Spirit we may be powerfully supported and enabled to stand in the hour of temptation; or when fallen, raised again and recovered out of it, and have a sanctified use and improvement thereof: that our sanctification and salvation may be perfected, Satan trodden under our feet, and we fully freed from sin, temptation, and all evil, forever.