Morning Prayer

Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Deuteronomy:” oratorical sections are stressed. ISBE on “Leviticus:” locates all the law in the wilderness period. For Genesis 17.1ff: Prof. Keil comments on names of Jehovah, Elohim and El Shaddai. For Judges 9.1ff., Prof. Keil waxes long on the Abimelech-Gaal conflict. For Isaiah 11.10-16, Prof. Henry comments on the advance of the Messianic kingdom. For Mathew 9.27-34, Prof. Jamieson deals with the mute-demoniac who is healed. For Romans 6.12-23, Prof. Hodge must learn to write more clearly. This may have been written for a Greek student or while teaching Greek students. As a reader, the thickets are too thick. For Acts 1.15-26, Prof. Henry notes how Peter stood up in the assembly to speak regarding selecting a 12th apostole. For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge wags on about the cosmological argument. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond exegetes Romans 9. For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof concludes the section on erroneous views of the Final Judgment. ODCC: Gregory the Great (540-604): discusses his pastoral manual and Bible commentaries—Job and the Gospels. Also, 800ish letters give insights to his character. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff “romanticizes” and takes “rhetorical flights” on Paul’s character. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff offers the expectation that medieval clerks were expected to be paragons of virtue although that did not always occur. The Hildenbrandian reforms would tighten things up. The 10th-11th Papacy led the way in immoralities as a Pornocracy. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff continues the utterly exquisite letter by Calvin to Sadolet. The letter is a classic of the Reformation. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch further discusses the disadvantageous land leases and exchanges on Cranmerian properties. For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff tells of Melachthon’s flips on the Leipzig Interim, ever-weak and ever-flaccid. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #641-642 tells the Resurrection story without the freaks and flat-liners of the Jesus Seminar, outstripping the decadent Protestants by miles. Westminster Confession of Faith 9.3: 4. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin; and, by his grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.