Evening Prayer

Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Leviticus:” Hilariously, the author discusses the Graffaholic-Wellhausians. He does a nice job of burying them without an interment service nor a headstone. It’s funny to watch the dictators fall. For Genesis 14.1ff.: Prof. Keil discusses the lineage and background of Melchizedek. For Judges 8.13ff., Prof. Keil discusses the inter-tribal rivalries following Gideon’s successful combat operations. For Isaiah 10.20-23, Prof. Henry again focuses on the certainty of judgment coming to the proud Assyrians and King Sennacherib. ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall comments on the Messianic secret, yet also Jesus’s affirmation of it. For Mathew 8.5-22, Prof. Jamieson draws his remarks to a close on the irresolute disciples. Count the cost. For Romans 6.1-11, Prof. Hodge correlates justification and sanctification with an eye to rebutting antimonianism. Or, as Dr. Gerstner would say, “Free from the law, O blessed condition; I can sin as I please and still have remission.” Nip it, Andy, Nip in the bud. For Acts 1.6-11, Prof. Henry focuses on the Ascension. Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” introduces Zeno, disciple of Parmenides, and clever wit. EDT: Kant: speaks of 3-4 of his books, volumes full of 1000s of nuances, caveats and difficulties. Yet, his ghost spread around the Continent, crossed the English Channel to OXBRIDGE and finally, in its theological forms, migrated to North America. For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge talks about innate knowledge, the human conscience and natural law as revelatory. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond puts Pinnock under the microscope. For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof is still trying to collect all the divided pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of fragments—that’s dispensationalism. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff is still long-talking Paul’s conversion, colorfully but fully. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff calls the 1054 schism a great sin. There will be no union. Happy talk for photo ops fit for the yoga center, but no doctrinal revisions. History has been recorded. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff gives another letter of Calvin gently chiding Mellie for his theological tap dancing and ambiguities. Farel saw Mellie as a coward. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch begins to outline Crum’s plot to take down Anne. Chapuys is getting excited and trads are onboard. Get rid of Anne and get a Spanish princess? Cool, bros. For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff describes the Lutheran wars, internecine conflicts between the Gensios and Mellies. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #599-601 try their hand at predestination, Jesus’s trial and human freedom. That is, put it in drive, then reverse, then repeat #1-#1 ad aternitatem. Don’t mind getting stuck in the mud, though. 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.