Evening Prayer
For
Psalm 22, Prof. Calvin briefly comments on 22.24.
Zondervan
Pictorial Bible: Adam: describes how wonderful it is to explore the situation
of Adam.
ISBE
on the dating of Exodus: Prof. R. K. Harrison discusses possible, future excavation
sites for Pi-Ramses and the 18th-19th dynasties.
For
Genesis 9.18-29: Prof. Keil continued talking about the rainbow in the sky as
God’s covenant sign. Also, he brings in the drunken debacle.
For Judges
4-5, Prof. Keil further describes the take-down of Sisera by the tent-peg
through the temple.
For
Isaiah 9.1-7, Prof. Henry comments on the glorious Messianic kingdom.
ISBE
on Luke: Dr. E. E. Ellis comments on Luke’s themes.
For
Mathew 6.19-34, Prof. Jamieson describes focusing on the LORD and serving Him,
versus a worldly-minded focus.
For
Romans 5.12-21, Prof. Hodge baffle-gabs without clarity on exegetical
fine-points.
For
Revelation 21.9-28, Prof. Henry describes the international citizenry in the
New Jerusalem.
Frederick
Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” comments on systems
that come-and-go.
EDT: Arianism:
describes Arius’s view of “there was a time when the Logos was not.”
or
Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge hammers home the universality of
Arianism in the days of Emperor Constantinian with anti-Nicene subscriptions
and confessions embracing Bishops and some men of Rome.
For
Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond exquisitely discusses John 20.28.
For Eschatology
(locus 7), Prof. Berkhof brilliantly comments on eschatology in all religions
and philosophies. Whence came man? Whence does he go? What of an afterlife? Or,
of nations and states and history? Touche by the Prof.
ODCC:
Gregory IX: (1148-1241): appointed as Protector of the Franciscans. Also,
entrusts the inquisition to the Dominicans in 1232.
For
Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff gabs on about the date and
place of Pentecost.
For
Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff, 4.261, notes that Napoleon
came on a whirlwind of power on the wings of his military genius. He believed
the Pope should be a “paid and obedient servant” of the Emperor at Parish. “You
are right that I am Charlemagne…an Emperor at the Papal Court. The Pope
listened, said “Comedian, then “Tragedian,” and then turned his back to Napoleon.
For
the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff, 8.344, speaks of
Calvini Fuga, fleeing the Italian Inquisition.
For
Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch, 105, comments on the sad psychological disintegration
of the Maid of Kent, especially after incriminating papers were found and after
the severe ridiculing of her entire career at St. Paul’s Cross. Meanwhile, the
Pope is tired of the English crown turning off and on his authority. A complete
break was in the offing of a millennium of close Anglo-Papal relations. Chapuys
noted that Cranmer was the leader in defiance amongst a reluctant crew of English
Bishops.
For
the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff comments on the varied editions
of the Augsburg Confession, a work-in-progress at the time.
1994
CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #442-443 speaks of Christ and history,
embarrassing the Protestant liberals again.
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