Morning Prayer
For
Psalm 22, Prof. Calvin on 22.23 comments, as usual, on thanksgiving as mutually
encouraging each other, reflecting true piety and inward fear of the LORD.
Zondervan
Pictorial Bible: Adam: original man, sons of Adam, etc.
ISBE
on the dating of Exodus: Prof. R. K. Harrison comments on the archaeology of the
18th and 19th dynasties.
For
Genesis 9.1-7: Prof. Keil speaks of the rainbow as a covenant pledge and sign.
For Judges
4-5, Prof. Keil puts this victory in the category of miraculous destructions of
Pharoah and the Canaanites of Gibeon.
For
Isaiah 9.1-7, Prof. Henry speaks of Christ’s government—on His shoulders with
the incontestable right to govern and of which glorious things are said—and is
more and more enlarged.
ISBE
on Luke: Dr. E. E. Ellis comments on the accuracy of Luke the historian and
theologian.
For
Mathew 6.19-34, Prof. Jamieson comments on the inability to serve two masters.
For
Romans 5.12-21, Prof. Hodge discusses the method of justification—condemned by
one man’s sin and justified by Another Man’s righteousness.
For
Revelation 21.9-28, Prof. Henry discusses the Light of the New Jerusalem—God’s
glory and the Lamb’s glory are the light of the New Jerusalem.
Frederick
Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” cautions the reader
to avoid deprecating the past as merely antique relics. Yes, systems came and
sent, one system refuting and killing the other and then burying it. Platonism,
Aristotelianism, Scholasticism, Cartesianism, and Hegelianism—they all had
their periods of population. History is littered with metaphysical systems.
Errors are always instructive, e.g., exaggerated Realism and Nominalism.
Learning the past allows one to avoid
blind alleys and repeated the errors of predecessors. Classic advice.
EDT: Arianism:
Arius was a thorough-going rationalist who labored for Origenism (and lost his
balance)
or
Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge rebuts infallibility by the general
prevalence of Arianism in its day, including some Popes.
For
Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond comments on the supreme Christological
pronouncement—incarnational theology—in John’s writings.
For Ecclesiology
(locus 6), Prof. Berkhof finishes his remarks on the Lord’s Supper
ODCC:
Gregory IX: (1148-1241): studied at Paris and Bologna and was a Papal
ambassador to Germany. Put Germany under the interdict.
For
Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff discusses the time and
place of the Pentecost of Acts 2.
For
Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff, 4.260, notes the
gradual decline of the German Empire—from the Swiss mountaineers, the emergence
of nation-states of Spain, France and England, the emergence of the New World,
the Reformation, and the Thirty-Years’ War.
For
the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff, 8.343, notes that some
want predestination to be buried, but those with piety in the school of the
Holy Spirit, dare not deny that eternal life is foreordained for some and
eternal damnation for others.
For
Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch discusses the Maid of Kent in summer and autumn 1533,
including Latimer’s withering skepticism that cause her confidence to collapse.
For
the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff is still discussing the
Augsburg Confession and reactions to it later in history.
1994
CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #439: Jesus was the messianic “Son of
David” who came not to be served, but to serve and give His life as a ransom
for many.
Westminster Confession of Faith 1.1:
CHAPTER 1
Of the Holy Scripture
1. Although the light of nature, and
the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom,
and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to
give that knowledge of God, and of his will, which is necessary unto salvation.
Therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to
reveal himself, and to declare that his will unto his church; and afterwards,
for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure
establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh,
and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto
writing: which maketh the Holy Scripture to be most necessary; those former
ways of God's revealing his will unto his people being now ceased.
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