Morning Prayer

For Psalm 25, Prof. Calvin once again takes leave of the text to offer some fancies. Stick with the text, please.

Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Levites:” comments on the post-Sinaitic period with David appointing some to musical duties.

ISBE on “Levi:” comments on Levi’s participation in the act of revenge over his sister, Dinah, and her rape.

For Genesis 13.1ff: Prof. Keil comments on Abram and Lot separating due to tribal conflicts and herding rights.

For Judges 7.10ff., Prof. Keil comments on Gideon, his 300 warriors, and the trumpets in the hands of each warrior.

For Isaiah 10.5-19, Prof. Henry notes that God will “burn down” Sennacherib’s brambles and thornbushes.

ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall

For Mathew 8.5-22, Prof. Jamieson proposes to handle all three healings in this section.

For Romans 5.12-21, Prof. Hodge leaves us (again) in a jungle of words that repeat what he’s said before on imputation and federal theology.

For Acts 1.6-11, Prof. Henry further comments on the blessedness “of not knowing some things.” As an aside, we would note that Calvin often comments on knowing one’s theological limits.

Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” concludes the section on Heraclitus on the One and Many problem.

EDT: William Ellery Channing (1780-1842): a Unitarian Congregationalist in Boston and, perhaps, the father of Transcendentalism. Yet, he held a few classic beliefs, e.g. miracles, etc., but denied ontological Trinitarianism, quite in keeping with Harvard’s views.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge asserts the duty and right of every Churchmen to read and learn from the Scriptures. Private judgment without a magisterium. He comments on the perspicuity of the Scriptures.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond finishes his discussion of the restraints of the Westminster divines, yet, who carefully retained eternal generation and eternal procession, like Article 8 of the 39 Articles.

For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof notes the preceding signs of the Second Coming—the Second Coming includes the resurrection and final judgment. The Prof. is making is hard for the dispensationalists.

ODCC: Victorinus (d.304): bishop of Pannonia, writer of commentaries (none exist except a Vatican mss. on Revelation), premillenarian, and object of criticism by Jerome.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff discusses Paul as a tradesman.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff discusses some differences between Rome and Constantinople—minor ones and some major ones. Union is most unlikely other than some happy talk for the cameras.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff enthuses over the long-standing friendship between Melancthon and Calvin.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch discusses the Continental Anabaptists. Papists lump the Reformers in with them.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff discusses John Agricola and his contentions in the Lutheran wars.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #575-577 describes Jesus’s affirmation of the Law, including his exquisite insights in the Sermon on the Mount, as well as commending some Pharisees and scribes, and agreeing some of their views, e.g., resurrection.

Westminster Confession of Faith 6.6:

6. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.