Morning Prayer

“The Fundamentals—A Testimony to the Truth, Vol. 1:” in “History of Higher Criticism,” Dean Dyson Hague has begun his commentary on German theologians. Oh the fun! Halley’s “Bible Handbook:” comments on the centrality of the Bible, a good, simple, recalibrative remembrance. For Psalm 27, Prof. Calvin (again) notes how David self-fortifies his mind by rehearsing God’s promises and deliverances. Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Noah:” as it were, for God so love holiness and righteousness, that he destroyed the wicked. ISBE on “Leviticus:” comments on the standard Wellhausen postulate ( = Germanic fancies and chimeras) of Leviticus as a post-exilic P-document. For Genesis 17.1ff: Prof. Keil notes that Abraham and all the males got the sign of the covenant, circumcision, a sign of moral cleansing. For Judges 10.6-16., Prof. Keil comments on the oppressions by Philistines and Ammonites. ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall notes that John’s use of Logos was rooted in the wisdom literature rather than Greek ideas. For Mathew 10.1ff., Prof. Jamieson notes that Jesus spend a night on the mountain in prayer. For Romans 7, Prof. Hodge on our view might be said to be an expansion and amplification on Romans 6. For Acts 1.15-26, Prof. Henry notes the Judas’s reputation spread amongst the Christians. Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” discussion of the atomists, Parmenides, Empedocles, motion and the One and the Many. EDT: “Kenosis Theology:” the difficulty of the God-man omniscience, but indications otherwise. For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge shifts from the cosmological to the teleological argument. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond ably handles the objections to God’s sovereignty, election, and the Arminians on Romans 9-11. For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof discusses hell, everlasting fire, and the continued estate of the wicked after death and after the Final Judgment. Contra the annihilationists. ODCC: “High Priest:” dressed in vestments he conducts the Liturgy of the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16). For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff describes the sufferings of St. Paul as evinced by 2 Cor. 11. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff continues the discussion of slavery and serfdom. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff discusses Calvin’s marriage and home life. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch discusses the 1530s and 1540s with the Lutheran influences in and on England. For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff discusses the anti-predestinarians in the Lutheran camp with the Formula of Concord. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #652-654 discusses Christ’s resurrection in sentences that lawfully shames Bultmann and his crew. Westminster Confession of Faith 10.2: 2. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification: yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love.