Morning Prayer

For Psalm 26, Prof. Calvin introduced Psalm 26. Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Numbers:” discusses the title in the MT, LXX and English Bibles. For Genesis 15.1ff.: Prof. Keil describes Abram’s vision and God’s answer to the implicit issues arising from the previous calling. For Judges 8.13ff., Prof. Keil describes the varied booty from Gideon’s conquest of the Midiates. Gideon makes an ephod of the varied gems acquired. For Isaiah 11.1-9, Prof. Henry describes the Messiah as the descendant of Jesse and David. ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall describes Dodd’s and Bultmann’s view of Jesus as the Son of Man. For Mathew 8.5-22, Prof. Jamieson discusses Matthew and his tribal designation as a Levite. For Romans 6.1-11, Prof. Hodge describes the death of the old man, union with Christ, death to sin, and life or living unto righteousness. For Acts 1.6-11, Prof. Henry describes the personal, visible ascension of Jesus and His similar, visible and personal return in the Second Advent. Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” some mumb-jumbo on Zeno’s view of the “line” consisting of an infinite number of points on the line. EDT: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): discusses Kant’s diktats on the arguments for God’s existence. He dismisses them all as unreasonable. For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge ably describes the knowledge of God as native to the created status and innate constitution of humanity. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond describes how Pinnock’s solution to predestination gets him nowhere. For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof comments on the Pelagianized progressivism of the postmillenializing, decadent Protestants of the 19th-20th centuries, citing Rauschenbush and Shirly Jackson Case. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff is describing Paul’s conversion. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff gives more of the gamesmanship and one-upmanship between Rome and Constantinople in the 1050s. The rupture is settled. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff continues to finesse the cordial relations between Calvin and the timid Melancthon. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch discusses the hot showdown between Cromwell and Anne. Bishop Stokesley is the man who brings Henry over to Crum’s view on 28 April 1536. In 32 hypersonic days, Anne is tried and executed, Cranmer has issued the nullity decree, and Henry marries and crowns Jane. For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff continues the discussion about Luthero-Ubiquitarians and Melancthon’s denial of Ubiquity. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #605-606 advocates for universal atonement like the Arminians and Lutherans. Westminster Confession of Faith 8.1: CHAPTER 8 Of Christ the Mediator 1. It pleased God, in his eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, his only begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and man, the Prophet, Priest, and King, the Head and Savior of his church, the Heir of all things, and Judge of the world: unto whom he did from all eternity give a people, to be his seed, and to be by him in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified, and glorified.