Morning Prayer

For Psalm 22, Prof. Calvin comments on the depths of afflictions for David and the greater David, but that both persevered.

ISBE on the dating of Exodus: Prof. R. K. Harrison discusses the co-regency of Thutmose III and his son, Amenhotep II.

For Genesis 6.1-8: Prof. Keil discusses the Nephilim as oppressors and tyrants.

For Judges 3.6-16.31, Prof. Keil is still talking chronology.

For Isaiah 8.16-22, Prof. Henry continues to discuss the importance and centrality of the “law and testimony” of Isaiah and his school.

ISBE on Luke: Dr. E. E. Ellis discusses Semler’s sword-thrust that Marcion’s Gospel of Luke was the original Gospel.

For Mathew 6.10-13, Prof. Jamieson discusses, “And forgive us our debts…”

For Romans 4.18-25, Prof. Hodge speaks of the promises to Abraham and his descendants as the specific promises of gratuitous acceptance through the merits and mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For Revelation 21.1-8, Prof. Henry describes the new heaven and new earth.

EDT on Eduard Zeller (1814-1918): he studied under Bauer and was close friends with Strauss, imbibing the poison of the NT as a collection of myths obscuring the historical Jesus.

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 251-266): in “Franciscu Junius, Old Princeton, and the Question of Natural Theology: A Response to Shannon’s `Junius and Van Til on Natural Knowledge of God,” Dr. Kevin DeYoung discusses archetypal and ectypal knowledge.

Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Mea Culpa: An Apology for Original Sin,” Dr. Hans Madueme notes that theologians choke on the hard edges of Augustinian doctrine. Ratzinger refers to damaged relationships. Another claims it’s wrong to punish the innocent. Some Roman Catholic theologians have questioned inherent guilt although it’s official dogma.

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): “Be Ye Holy: The Doctrine of Sanctification from Leviticus:” Rev. Matthew Kortus discusses the positive action of separation from sin. Ears? Eyes? Subjects of focus and meditation?

Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2021), in “Books that Merit Re-read: Competent to Counsel:” Dr. James Newheiser discusses some refinement in the Adams’s school.

Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), “New Approaches to the Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament:” Dr. Andrew D. Streett is talking about “memory and orality” in the use of the OT in the NT.

The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review (Volume 9 issue 1, 1837, pages 1-29), Rev. Joel Jones in “Protestantism” discusses the rise of Innocent III and his self-allusion as the “Sun” and the Emperor as the “Moon.”

Concordia Theological Journal (Winter 2020), “The Conversions of Adiabene and Edessa in Syriac Christianity and Judaism: The Relations of Jews and Christians in Northern Mesopotamia in Antiquity: Dr.  Michael Thomas discusses trade and military movements in the northern headwaters of the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers affecting community developments.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge discusses the whole mass of Romanist creations and inventions as outside Scriptures. It is impossible to have both.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond discusses Peter’s high Christology.

For Ecclesiology (locus 6), Prof. Berkhof discusses the conclusions of the Synod of Utrecht of 1908 on presumptive regeneration, yet, understanding election as in the background.

ODCC: Original Sin: for Romanists, the “loss of sanctifying grace.”

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff discusses the Feast of Pentecost, an agricultural festival of gratitude and harvest.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff discusses some poetry that magnifies Charlemagne.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff comments on Calvin’s 1534 book on Psychopannychia and time at Basel in 1535-1536.  

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch comments on the fiscal requirements for the eleven bulls for Cranmer to proceed to the archepiscopal office.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff discusses rationalistic apostasy, extreme symbolatry, ultra-orthodoxy, test-oaths, and hypocritical formality in Continental Lutheranism.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs 382-285 wraps up creation and opens up “The Fall” from “original holiness and justice of man.”

Westminster Larger Catechism 183:

Q. 183. For whom are we to pray?
A. We are to pray for the whole church of Christ upon earth; for magistrates, and ministers; for ourselves, our brethren, yea, our enemies; and for all sorts of men living, or that shall live hereafter; but not for the dead, nor for those that are known to have sinned the sin unto death.