Evening Prayer

For Psalm 22, Prof. Calvin notes that God is unwilling that His name should be extinguished in the world.

Zondervan Pictorial Bible: Adam: the wrap is offered on the story.

ISBE on the dating of Exodus: Prof. R. K. Harrison speaks of archaeology.

For Genesis 10-11.9: Prof. Keil speaks of the history of the sons of Noah.

For Judges 5, Prof. Keil speaks of Deborah and Barak.

For Isaiah 9.9-21, Prof. Henry speaks of creatures as idols of one’s own fancy. God smites that He may not kill. Leaders who mislead and cause their people to err.

ISBE on Luke: Dr. E. E. Ellis speaks of the fancy of Q.

For Mathew 6.19-34, Prof. Jamieson speaks of a divided heart that vitiates the powers and darkens the inner man.

For Romans 5.12-21, Prof. Hodge talks again about 5.12 and varied classes of interpretation.

For Revelation 22.1-5, Prof. Henry speaks of the rivers of life and the tree of life in the New Jerusalem.

Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” notes that the volumes are not for specialists, or, a specialization on any one thinker.

EDT: Deism: comments on the lasting and influential legacy of Deism.

or Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge cites the Protestant Confessions on sola scriptura.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond comments on Johannine Christology.

For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof comments on individual and general eschatology.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff discusses Peter in early Christianity. No NT evidence for Peter at Rome but based on early tradition.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff speaks of the Isadorian Decretals.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff speaks of the articles of faith and church order adopted in Geneva in Nov 1536.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch talks about the interactions between Cranmer and the Lisle family. The husband was weak but amiable and followed his more capable and strong-willed woman. All was conducted with elaborate politeness as befitting two conscientious royal servants.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff talks against about the Augsburg Confession—Variata and Invariata.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #464-466 talks about Gnostic Docetism, Nestorianism and Theotokos of the Ephesian Council of 431.

Westminster Confession of Faith 1.5:

5. We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church to an high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scripture. And the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole (which is, to give all glory to God), the full discovery it makes of the only way of man's salvation, the many other incomparable excellencies, and the entire perfection thereof, are arguments whereby it doth abundantly evidence itself to be the Word of God: yet notwithstanding, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority thereof, is from the inward work of the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the Word in our hearts.