Morning Prayer and the Litany

For Psalm 22, Prof. Calvin commits on the mutuality of encouragement in public worship.

Zondervan Pictorial Bible: notes that we have no idea how long Adam and Eve were in the Garden.

ISBE on the dating of Exodus: Prof. R. K. Harrison is still discussing archaeology and Pi-Ramses.

For Genesis 9.18-29: Prof. Keil discusses the three sons of Noah: Japhet, Ham and Shem.

For Judges 5, Prof. Keil discusses the morality/immorality of slaying Sisera.

For Isaiah 9.8-21, Prof. Henry discusses the Messianic rule.

ISBE on Luke: Dr. E. E. Ellis discusses the dating issue—the 60s.

For Mathew 6.19-34, Prof. Jamieson comments on take no thought for what you should eat, e.g., note the birds of the air.

For Romans 5.12-21, Prof. Hodge comments on “sin entered the world” resulting in hostile and evil powers, the corruption of men, and the abiding corrupting element.

For Revelation 21.9-28, Prof. Henry discusses the New Jerusalem.

Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” notes that the history of philosophy is not a mere congeries of opinions or a succession of philosophic opinions.

EDT: Deism: talks about Lord Herbert of Cherbury as a certain form of rationalism in the mid-17^th to mid-18^th centuries as an antithesis to atheism with knowledge known by reason rather than revelation or church teaching.

or Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge continues to show that Romanists must abandon their principle of infallibility, if not for Arianism, then for Augustinianism.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond begins his workup on John 1.1.

For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof notes that belief in the immortality of the soul and life after death is nearwise universal—Christians, Buddhists with Nirvana, Islamists with sensual Paradise and Indians with happy hunting grounds.

ODCC: Gregory X: (1210-1276): was not a cardinal or priest, yet elected Pope. Tried but failed to unite with the Greeks.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff finishes his treatment of the Pentecost.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff concludes his discussion of Napoleon.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff discusses Calvin’s foray back to Noyon to settle family affairs and a redirected route to Geneva due to a stand-off between Francis 1 and Charles 5.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch discusses Cranmer’s enthronement at Canterbury, 3 Dec 1533.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff discusses again the editions of the Augsburg Confession.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #444-445 speaks, acceptably, of the term Lord and Yahweh for Jesus.

Westminster Confession of Faith 1.3:

3. The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon of the Scripture, and therefore are of no authority in the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings.