Morning Prayer

“The Fundamentals—A Testimony to the Truth, Vol. 1:” in “History of Higher Criticism,” Dean Dyson Hague is assessing legitimate higher criticism, but in a reverent and spiritual manner. Very generic. Get ready. Dean Hague is about to nuke the Germans who approach ANE and Semitic writers as “inferior German Professors.” What a howl! The Dean, a Canadian Anglican, is in command. Halley’s “Bible Handbook:” comments on the centrality of Jesus to the Canon. For Psalm 27, Prof. Calvin, as usual, calls to confidence in God’s supremacy, an antidote for anxiety. ISBE on “Leviticus:” notes that Ezekiel widely comments on Leviticus, another argument against post-exilic composition (amongst others). For Judges 10.1ff., Prof. Keil comments on Tola and Jair, two judges who get little ink and consideration. Regional monarchs, military commanders and theological governance. For Isaiah 11.10-16, Prof. Henry further comments on Messianic developments in Hezekiah’s days. ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall entertains Bultmann’s comments on the Logos. For Mathew 10.1ff., Prof. Jamieson notes this is Jesus’s third circuit. For Romans 6.12-23, Prof. Hodge offers doctrinal points on sanctification. For Acts 1.15-26, Prof. Henry comments on Judas’s death. Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” the issue of the atomists is raised. For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge gives a 5-point rebuttal to Hume by way of a reductio ad absurdam. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond gives an exquisite and inarguable exegesis of Romans 9. For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof comments on “God’s private book” as the “Book of Remembrance” on the final day of judgment. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff comments on Paul’s conversion. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff introduces the subject of widespread slavery in the medieval period. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff finishes up Calvin’s exquisite letter to Cardinal Sadolet. Even Luther is impressed. Westminster Confession of Faith 10.2: 2. This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man, who is altogether passive therein, until, being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit, he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.