Mornong Prayer

For Psalm 26, Prof. Calvin discusses bribes as a feature of the elites. Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Deuteronomy:” gives the outline of 2nd millennium suzerainty treaties. ISBE on “Leviticus:” cautionary notes are offered about the arbitrary dissectionists and their elaborations. For Genesis 16.1ff.: Prof. Keil discusses the “God who Sees” as Hagar’s confessional response to the visitation of the Angel of the LORD. For Judges 9.1ff., Prof. Keil further discusses the Shechemites turning on Abimelech and his monarchialist effort. For Isaiah 11.1-9, Prof. Henry discussing the peaceability of Messiah’s reign in the true churches. For Mathew 9.27-34, Prof. Jamieson details the story of the healing of the two blind men and the dumb man. For Romans 6.12-23, Prof. Hodge further argues for the necessary consequences of holiness as obedience to righteousness. For Acts 1.15-26, Prof. Henry notes that the selection of Matthias as the 12th apostle may have been ordered by Jesus during his pre-Ascensional colloquies. Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” Anaxagoras is in the Parmenidean school—the One always has been and always will be be. EDT: “Kenosis Theology:” discusses additional versions of the kenosis. For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge baffle-gabs unhelpfully on the cosmological argument. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond begins his exquisite, simple, ample, and clear exposition of the NT evidence for God’s sovereignty, election, and effectual grace. It couldn’t be clearer. For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof discusses the Final Judgment as a distinct event while noting that judgments are on-going in providence. ODCC: Gregory the Great (540-604: his early life is related as a Prefect, ambassador to Constantinople, his return to Rome, his Abbacy of St. Andrew’s in Rome and his establishment of 6 monasteries in Sicily. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff notes that Renan flip-flopped near death, acknowledging the miraculous nature of Paul’s conversion. Schaff notes that the previous assertions against miracles must fall, falsus in uno, falsus in omnium. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff will take up a discuss of clerical morals in the medieval Christianity. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff offers more from Calvin’s letter to Sadolet, written in the form of a prayer and akin to Augustine’s Confession. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch comments on Cranmer’s estate losses in Crum’s program of alienation of lands in favor of himself and Harry. For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff discusses the adiaphoristic debates (1548-1555), including the period that the Schmalkald League was defeated by Charles V. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #637 offers little of help on the descensus clause. However, Christ went to hell to liberate Adam and Eve. Odder than odd. Westminster Confession of Faith 9.2: 2. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom, and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleasing to God; but yet, mutably, so that he might fall from it.