Morning Prayer

For Psalm 25.7, Prof. Calvin draws the eye to God’s goodnesses, a focus which fixes the elects’ hearts even in difficult times. Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.

Zondervan Pictorial Bible: Levites: commentary on their place in the Mosaic economy.

ISBE on “Letters:” further comments on the 1000s of letters in the ANE. Sorry, Graffoes.

For Genesis 12.7ff.: Prof. Keil comments on Abraham’s arrival in Canaan but journey to Egypt due to the famine.

For Judges 7.1ff, Prof. Keil discusses the troop reduction of Gideon’s forces from 22,000 to 300.

For Isaiah 10.5-19, Prof. Henry continues the forensic analysis of King Sennacherib. One take-away—proud poohbahs in royal leadership are put on alert. No one, including Kings, escape the divine analysis.

ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall comments on the Revelation of God in Christ, God incarnate, the Logos incarnate.

For Mathew 8.1-4, Prof. Jamieson notes that Jesus dined in the house of Simon the healed leper. Same man? Prof. Jamieson assumes so. That is, the man persevered in his God-given faith and ealing.

For Romans 5.12-21, Prof. Hodge is dealing with objections to imputation: who does this? Umm, rich Grandfathers bequest inheritances to children and grandchildren. It’s is ascribed to their accounts without having merited it themselves. More examples are offered (by us, rather than Hodge).

For Acts 1.6-11, Prof. Henry is still commented on the “imposed scheme” that the Apostles were applying to the Kingdom of God, the new theocracy, etc. Henry comments about philosophic schemes imposed from without.

Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” continues to discuss unity and diversity. Prof. Copleston seems to have an Hegelian twang interpretatively. ??.

EDT: Socinus: he holds a few classical ideas of theology, e.g. miracles, resurrection, but denied the Trinity, original sin, predestination and the Reformed view of soteriology. Unitarians later go full bore in doctrinal decimations.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge deals with the varied versions of “partial inspiration.”

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond is still wonking out about “eternally begotten” and “eternal procession.”

For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof discusses the great apostasy before the Lord’s second coming. The church and the elect live through the terrible tribulation.

ODCC: Arnold of Brescia (d. 1155): a reformer born in Brescia, trained in Paris (under Abelard), and opponent of simony, greed, avarice and immorality in the Romanist hierarchy. He lives through the 3-Pope debacle in Rome. Which one was infallible? And how did the authority of a Synod, with a greater authority, depose 3 Popes? 1870 finally answers that question.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff, having discussed Paul’s rabbinic background, turns to him as Hellenized—in varying degrees according to the scholar.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff discusses Henry III, the Synod of Sutri, and the spectacle of three popes at the same time.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff discusses the failed conference of Regensburg, 1541. The Emperor was merely playing with Protestants—an Emperor with a capable staff but he himself lacking a theological mind. Calvin was at the colloquy, an effort to jumpstart unionism between the Imperialists and the Bible-men.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch explains the odd, troubled, conflicted and reconciliatory aspects of the Cranmer-Lisles relationship.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff begins to discuss the Majoristic Controversy (1552-1570s) within Lutheranism.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #557-559 outshines the PTJ (again) in keeping the main things the main things, e.g. Palm Sunday.

Westminster Confession of Faith 6.2:

2. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.