Morning Prayer and the Litany

For Psalm 24, Prof. Calvin discusses the glories of both the tabernacle and Temple, signs, seals and pledges of God’s covenantal faithfulness.

Zondervan Pictorial Bible: Exodus: the miracles of plagues, Exodus, Sinai, etc., are discussed.

ISBE on the route of the Exodus: Prof. T. V. Brisko disposes of the alternative central exodus theory.

For Genesis 11.27-25.11: Prof. Keil takes a detour on the covenant of grace with the dual destinies of humanity. Wanna add anything Mike Curry or Justin of Canterbury?

For Judges 6.1-16, Prof. Keil talks about the commands of the Angel of the LORD to Gideon. The Prof. takes a detour on the Hebrew and LXX usages of Melek Yahweh and Angelos Kuriou.

For Isaiah 10.5-19, Prof. Henry notes the Sennacherib is a blowhard imperialists with bloodlust on the mind and in search of power and the great name. He’ll fall and God’s Word and judgment will stand and be infallibly executed.

ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall comments on possible Hellenisms and Hebraisms in John’s writings.

For Mathew 7.13-29, Prof. Jamieson comments on the wise man and fool, the former building his house on the Rock of Christ’s teaching while the fool builds on sand. One withstands heavy weather while the other collapses.

For Romans 5.12-21, Prof. Hodge comments on the word “all” in the First Adam and “all” in Christ from the parallel.

For Acts 1.1-5, Prof. Henry comments on the commandments given to the apostles before the Ascension. We would add, without the resurrection, there would be no Luke-Acts.

Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” is commenting on the “soul” as understood by the Pythagoreans.

EDT: Interpretation of the Bible: Prof. F. F. Bruce comments on the subjectivists like Bultmann and his cherry-pickers.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge comments on Deists and partial-Deists and their views of verbal, plenary inspiration. They don’t believe that.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond discusses Calvin’s views of the Trinity and the Nicene Creed. Of note, the Nicene Creed was read by the congregation at the evening divine service of Pilgrim Presbyterian Church (OPC), Raleigh, NC. It is used weekly at Holy Communion at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Kinston, NC.

For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof comments on soul death and Psychopannychia. We would add the John Stott and, unbeknownst to one student, Philip Edcumbe Hughes, two CoE Churchmen.

ODCC: Cyprian (d. 258 AD): Bishop of Carthage, convert from paganism, student of Tertullian, exile from Carthage and martyr thanks to Emperor Valerian.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff is discussing the 4-5 individuals in the NT that have the name James.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff comments on a letter of the 11^th century that impugns and castigates Papal corruption and ignorance. It’s a damning indictment that reaches the ears of French and German noblemens’ ears.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff discusses metrical Psalmody as introduced and developed by Calvin at Geneva.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch discusses Gardiner’s obstructionism of Cranmer’s proposed visitation of Winchester in 1535. Gardiner implies Cranmer is disloyal to Henry and Cranmer, in a rare moment, gets hot about it in a letter to Cromwell.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff comments on the near severance of the relationship between Luther and Melancthon. Near death, Luther counsels the Elector that division was coming—to wit, in effect, which happened between the Melancthonian Lutherans and the Gnesio-Lutherans, the latter being closer to Luther than the former.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #527-#529 do a decent job of explaining the Jesus’s circumcision, Anna, Simeon, the life of quietness of Jesus and, finally, His Epiphany and inauguration of His ministry. Poor Bultmann would read, weep and chastise the infallibilists for their naïve reading of Scriptures, as “precritical” sorts. The Romanists do better than the mainline Saduccees subtracting from the text while acting as Pharisees with the pile-ons of social justice activism.

Westminster Confession of Faith 4.2:

2. After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female, with reasonable and immortal souls, endued with knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, after his own image; having the law of God written in their hearts, and power to fulfill it: and yet under a possibility of transgressing, being left to the liberty of their own will, which was subject unto change. Beside this law written in their hearts, they received a command, not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; which while they kept, they were happy in their communion with God, and had dominion over the creatures