Morning Prayer and the Litany

For Psalm 22, Prof. Calvin comments on the ravaging malice of angry bulls, roaring lions, and barking dogs.

ISBE on the dating of Exodus: Prof. R. K. Harrison concludes that Thutmose III was the Pharoah of the Exodus.

For Genesis 8.1-5: Prof. Keil discusses the universality of the flood, Arafat, Himalayas, Cordilleras, and the universality of the flood tradition in all nations.

For Judges 3.12-31, Prof. Keil discusses Eglon and Ehud.

For Isaiah 9.1-7, Prof. Henry notes that the “light” irradiated from those adhering to the law and testimony.

ISBE on Luke: Dr. E. E. Ellis more babble-talk from Baur.

For Mathew 6.16-22, Prof. Jamieson offers notes on the first three statements of the LORD’s prayer with the theocentric focus.

For Romans 5.1-11, Prof. Hodge notes the substitutionary death of Christ.

For Revelation 21.9-27, Prof. Henry read the glorious text.

EDT on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831): philosophized Christianity converted into thinly veiled pantheism and heresy.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge is still explaining Rome’s view of itself as a church.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond explains, gloriously, the dense and compact, yet, exceedingly,

For Ecclesiology (locus 6), Prof. Berkhof explains “This is my body.”

ODCC: Gregory 1 (530-604): Pope from 590. Founded 6 monasteries in Sicily and 1 in Rome. He entered as a monk, c. 574. Spent some years as a Roman representative at Constantinope and learned there was little to expected from the struggling eastern Empire.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff makes another effort at explaining “tongues” in the NT, not his area of expertise.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff speaks of Charlemagne’s coronation at St. Peter’s in 800—for the West, a reestablishment of the old Roman Empire on a Teutonic basis.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff speaks of Calvin’s Institutes—gives light without shade and truth without error.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch speaks of Henry’s secret platform at the Abbey for Anne’s coronation and her banquet at Westminster Hall.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff begins an outline of the Augsburg Confession.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraph #411 that Mary was preserved from the “stain of original sin…and committed no sin of any kind during her whole earthly life.”

Westminster Larger Catechism 190:

Q. 190. What do we pray for in the first petition?
A. In the first petition (which is, Hallowed be thy name), acknowledging the utter inability and indisposition that is in ourselves and all men to honor God aright, we pray, that God would by his grace enable and incline us and others to know, to acknowledge, and highly to esteem him, his titles, attributes, ordinances, word, works, and whatsoever he is pleased to make himself known by; and to glorify him in thought, word, and deed: that he would prevent and remove atheism, ignorance, idolatry, profaneness, and whatsoever is dishonorable to him; and, by his overruling providence, direct and dispose of all things to his own glory.