Evening Prayer

For Psalm 22, Prof. Calvin notes David’s distressed, but also the typological issue of the Greater David.

ISBE on the dating of Exodus: Prof. R. K. Harrison puts Thutmose III’s death in/around March/April.

For Genesis 6.1-8: Prof. Keil further discusses, somewhat at length, the phrase, “sons of God.”

For Judges 3.6-16.31, Prof. Keil discusses Samson and Eli as covering a similar time range.

For Isaiah 8.16-22, Prof. Henry discusses sticking with God’s Word in hard times.

ISBE on Luke: Dr. E. E. Ellis discusses “tagging” of a script or scroll with an author’s name, a usual manner of cataloguing in ancient libraries.

For Mathew 6.9, Prof. Jamieson talks of the Majesty and yet intimacy in the phrase, “Our Father who art in heaven…”

For Romans 4.14-17, Prof. Hodge deals with the globality of the Abrahamic covenant—as the father of many nations justified by faith apart from the works of the law or a personal disposition.

For Revelation 20.11-15, Prof. Henry talks of the Glorious Redeemer on His White Throne.

EDT on the D. F. Strauss (1808-1874): concludes the final years of Strauss adding little in later life to that offered in his earlier life.

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 237-250): “Having our Hearts Sprinkled Clean: Ezekiel 36.25-26 on Hebrews 10.22:” Dr. Kees does little to sustain his thesis here.

Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), “New Approaches to the Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament:” Dr. Andrew D. Streett is baffle-gabbing “relevance theory” of “inter-textual” criticism. Oddly, he keeps using the person pronoun “she” throughout as the exegete. An interesting signal.

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): “Be Ye Holy: The Doctrine of Sanctification from Leviticus:” Rev. Matthew Kortus comments on the activation of sanctification as divine grace and we start working.

Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2021), in “Books that Merit Re-read: Competent to Counsel:” Dr. James Newheiser comments on Jay Adams and his developers of thought. He compares Luther and Adams whose followers refined their schools.

The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review (Volume 9 issue 1, 1837, pages 1-29), Rev. Joel Jones in “Protestantism” is commenting on the flowering of the Protestant principle of freedom from Papal or Caesaro-Papal states, e.g. the principle of protest at the Diet of Spire.