Morning Prayer

For Psalm 24, Prof. Calvin offers an introduction to Psalm 25—David rousing himself to praise and joy.

Zondervan Pictorial Bible: Exodus: 1-12, Egyptian oppressed, Moses called, and ten plagues.

ISBE on the route of the Exodus: Prof. T. V. Brisko elaborates on a southern point for the Exodus departure, that is, a southern point from the Delta area.

For Genesis 11.27-25.11: Prof. Keil discusses the Angel of the LORD.

For Judges 6.25-32, Prof. Keil discusses the Angel of the LORD, as he does in our Genesis lection above.

For Isaiah 10.5-19, Prof. Henry continues to comment on the hubris and blindness of Sennacherib.

ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall notes the obvious—John was influenced by his time with and teaching of Jesus.

For Mathew 7.13-29, Prof. Jamieson comments on the seriousness of the end of the Sermon on the Mount.

For Romans 5.12-21, Prof. Hodge long-talks 5.19—seriously long-talks this important verse.

For Acts 1.1-5, Prof. Henry discusses Jesus’s command to wait in Jerusalem for the Pentecostal empowerment to ministry.

Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” discusses Pythagorean interest in “numbers” as the Urstoff.

EDT: Interpretation of the Bible: comments on Oscar Cullman’s heilsgeschicte as a corrective to structuralism.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge comments on Schleiermacher’s apostasy on verbal, plenary inspiration and the infallible Scriptures. Schleiermacher was a fundamentalist-libboe.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond cites Warfield’s summary of Christology and the Nicene Creed. Warfield is the Reformed hawk grabbing the rabbit.

For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof explicates the view of “postmortem second chances” for salvation.

ODCC: Cyprian (d. 258 AD): discusses the dates for Cyprian’s death and place in varied liturgical calendars, Greek, Roman and Anglican.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff comments on the strained and stretched exegesis of the Papists’ “cousin theory” for Mary and Joseph’s other children, or, Jesus’s half brothers. The Papists need to exegete the Scripture to maintain perpetual virginity, hype clerical celibacy, and postulate their cruel views of the marriage of Jospeh and Mary.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff comments on the gag-worthy antichrists in Rome replete with murder, avarice, infighting, and partisans’ electing anti-popes, etc.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff comments on Calvin’s academic and pastoral duties at Strassburg while continuing to write on several Bible books and revising his Institutes. We hope to retour the Institutes c. Sept 2022.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch further comments on the ad hoc responses of Henry and Crumwell to circumvent and control the Church with Crumwell’s appointment to the Vice-gerency.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff further comments on the bi-furcation into Ultra-Lutherans and the Philippists, or, Melancthonians.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #357 sneak in free will and consent by Jesus into His baptism, a cover for their operations on sin, already impugned earlier. The Vatican hustles aways from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans.

Westminster Confession of Faith 4.2:

2. Although, in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first Cause, all things come to pass immutably, and infallibly; yet, by the same providence, he ordereth them to fall out, according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently.