Evening Prayer

For Psalm 25, Prof. Calvin notes that David was overwhelmed with inner anguishes, not just external dangers and enemies. Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Leviticus:” we get the story of Wellhausianism. Why drag that dirty body from the grave? We’ve dealt with the Graffies elsewhere. For Genesis 14.1-12: Prof. Keil comments on Abram meeting Melchizidek upon return from his victory up north. For Judges 8.13ff., Prof. Keil is discussing the tribal rivalries after Gideon’s victory of the Midianites. Gideon is unamused by their jealousies. For Isaiah 10.20-23, Prof. Henry comments on the preservation of the elect, small in number though they be. They will survive. ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall comments on “martyria” or “witness” in the Gospel For Mathew 8.5-22, Prof. Jamieson continues to discuss half-hearted discipleship, particularly after the ardors of enthusiasm have waned. For Romans 6.1-11, Prof. Hodge: the argument for antinomianism from JFBA is nipped in the bud. Barney Fife to Andy: “Nip it! Nip it, Andy! Nip it in the bud!” God forbid that JFBA is a license to sin. For Acts 1.6-11, Prof. Henry speaks of the empowerment of the apostles to go to the ends of the earth. Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” deals with Plato and Aristotle’s appropriations of Parmenides. EDT: Transcendalism: gateway drugs to romanticism and optimism about human nature, the absence of original sin and Jesus the nice guy. For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge long-talks about intuitions, evidences and innate ideas about God. We’ll stick with Romans 1.18ff. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond expatiates on Clark Pinnock’s open theism and Arminianism, if he was even that. Socinian? For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof tries to collect the divisive pieces to the jigsaw puzzle of varied dispensationalists, differing amongst themselves. ODCC: Hosea: prophet to northern Israel whose degraded family life is a metaphor for northern Israel and God. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff continues to speak about Paul’s conversion (after intimating synergism this morning…Jesus giving a Billy Graham altar call to give his life to Jesus). We’re watching Schaff like soaring Reformed hawks over the trembling tall grass. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff discusses articles of reunion in 867 between the Greeks and Rome. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff gives a letter of mild rebuke from Calvin to Melanchthon in June 1545 after Mellie folded like a deck of cards before Luther’s last trumpet blast with hot lips about Cannibalism. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch describes the bad behavior of Cram over Lambert on the Cannibalism view of the Presence of His Majesty at the Supper. Cram is a crumb on the issue. For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff describes the long-bloody tongues, hot lips and inflated cheeks of Gnesio-Lutherans towards Reformed Churchmen on the Bone-Muncher-Crunchy issues. For more details see Anglo-Wafer-Gods@Breadworshippers.com. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #595-597 describes the trial of Jesus and some splits of views amongst the priests in Jerusalem, some secret believers like Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. Westminster Confession of Faith 7.6: 6. Under the gospel, when Christ, the substance, was exhibited, the ordinances in which this covenant is dispensed are the preaching of the Word, and the administration of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper: which, though fewer in number, and administered with more simplicity, and less outward glory, yet, in them, it is held forth in more fullness, evidence and spiritual efficacy, to all nations, both Jews and Gentiles; and is called the new testament. There are not therefore two covenants of grace, differing in substance, but one and the same, under various dispensations.