Morning Prayer

For Psalm 25, Prof. Calvin, as usual, camps on divine providence, fixity on the divine promises even in difficulties, yet with immoveable faith. That’s Reformed Theology that presses on from the wilderness to Canaan.

Zondervan Pictorial Bible: Levites: cursed in Genesis, but blessed after Sinai. The author uses these to explode the Graffies’ German rowboat.

ISBE on “Letters:” comments on the Amarna Letters, Lachish Letters and Elephantine Papyri. Oh no! Moses may have been able to be a writer!

For Genesis 12.1ff: Prof. Keil enlarged on the international implications of the Abrahamic covenant that would, one day, include kings and nations.

For Judges 7.1ff., Prof. Keil sets the stage for Gideon’s God-driven assault on the Midianites.

For Isaiah 10.5-19, Prof. Henry is camped on Sennacherib’s pride. His insolence before the Sovereign God.

ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall again notes that John 1.1-14 contains all that is thematic and implicit to the rest of the Gospel. Never heard it put that way.

For Mathew 8.1-4, Prof. Jamieson comments on Jesus’s instruction to the healed leper, to wit, keep it silent. The exact opposite of the expectation of joy and gratitude.

For Romans 5.12-21, Prof. Hodge continues the doctrinal restatement of imputation by citing other authors.

For Acts 1.6-11, Prof. Henry comments on a possible pre-Ascensional thought, to wit, Israel has just rejected you in Jerusalem and who could the Kingdom ever be restored under these conditions? Touche for Prof. Henry, a natural musing under the circumstances.

Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” exposits the Urstoff of Heraclitus, to wit, the stuff of reality is fire.

EDT: Socinius: initially rejected by Prussian Anabaptists and then accepted, he continues to take in-bound missiles from Romanists and True Catholics on his anti-Trinitarianism.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge drops a grenade down the chimney of the generalizers of inspiration.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond continues to expound how Calvin, Warfield, Boettner and Buswell deny “eternal procession” from John 15.26 and John 16.28.

For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof further deflates dispensationalism in persuasive and modest ways.

ODCC: Arnobius Jr.(5^th century): an anti-Augustinian writing from Rome.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff vigorously describes Paul’s scholarly credentials, noting that Paul was the scholar of the apostles.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff notes that Emperor Henry 3 holds a Synod at Sutri, 25 miles north of Rome, that successfully deposes the three Popes, two by direction deposition and the last by resignation.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff notes again Calvin’s astute observations on the compromisers, Bucer and Mellie.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch speaks of the evangelical advances, generally, in 1535. Of note, Gardster has been sent packing—a 3-year exile as an ambassador to France. As a devious man, Gardster could best assess other deviants on the Continent for the sake of old Harry.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff further describes the Osiandristic controversy and the partisanship, generally, between the Mellies and Gnesios.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #556 describes the Transfiguration, unremarkably as far as the commentary goes. The event itself is hyper-potent.

Westminster Confession of Faith

CHAPTER 6
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

1. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.