Morning Prayer

Halley’s “Bible Handbook:” discusses the overview of Genesis. An excellent handbook. For Psalm 28, Prof. Calvin comments on the word “strength” in connection with David. Ideas have consequences. God’s Presence has consequences. Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Isaac:” the quiet, uneventful, untraveled patriarch. ISBE on “Leviticus:” further comments on the theology of “Divine Presence,” one major predicate amongst other that inform and shape Leviticus. For Genesis 21: Prof. Keil comments on the birth of Isaac along with general comments on the patriarchs. For Judges 12.1ff., Prof. Keil further comments on Jepthah’s vow and promise to his daughter. For Isaiah 12.3-4, Prof. Henry comments on the joy in the song of praise. The Judaites had been spared the conquests of Sennacherib of Assyria while the northern tribes were subjugated. ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall comments on how Bultmann denies the atoning sacrifice of Christ. For Mathew 10.5-15, Prof. Jamieson comments on “shake the dust off the feet” and “I sent you out as sheep amongst wolves.” For Romans 7, Prof. Hodge comments on the holiness (and powerlessness per se) of the law. The law exposes and God convicts by the law. For Acts 2.1ff., Prof. Henry continues his discussion of Pentecost and the descent of the Holy Spirit. “Coming down” is a frequent OT anthropomorphism. Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” Protagoras’s view of ethics—relativized—are discussed in the city-state with the individual to be submissive. EDT: “Lanctantius:” Lanctantius (240-320) is brought aboard as a tutor to Constantine’s children. For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge reiterates the teleological argument in his response to Hume and Kant. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond comments on the NJV, the New Jewish Version, and its translation of Genesis 1.1-3. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Berkhof notes comments on the anthropocentric dogmatics of Schleiermacher and others who begin their theologies with Ich Theologie—the “I Theologies.” ODCC: “Gehenna:” place in Kidron Valley where infants were sacrificially offered to Molech. In time, it comes to be the place of burning, the place in the afterlife for apostates, and hell, or, Gehenna. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff discusses Jewish and Gentile Christianity vis a vis Acts 15. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff discusses how “torture” was adopted in the Justinian Code and was adopted in Italy, southern Gaul, Spain and amongst some northern barbarians. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff discusses the context and leadup to Calvin’s recall from Strassburg to Geneva, 1541. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch notes that Dr. Cranmer went mum with the Zurichers as the 1539 Six Articles were being crafted. For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff discusses the Lutheran notion of the communication idiomatum, including the ubiquity of Christ’s human nature and body. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #692-695 discusses the titles and symbols of the Holy Spirit. 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.