Morning Prayer

“The Fundamentals—A Testimony to the Truth, Vol. 1:” in “History of Higher Criticism,” Dean Dyson Hague states the presuppositions of most (not all) higher critics. The dominant voices don’t believe in the God of the Bible. Halley’s “Bible Handbook:” a potent pitch is made to read the Bible. Not talk, but action. For Psalm 27, Prof. Calvin returns to a familiar theme with David—trust in God in the presence of enemies. ISBE on “Leviticus:” discusses the P-hypothesis of the Germans who treat ANE authors like “inferior German colleagues” with their wonderful cast of mind that blinds them. For Genesis 18.1ff: Prof. Keil introduces the three heavenly figures who visit Abraham. The first several verses are to buck up Sarah on the promised child. For Judges 10.6-16, Prof. Keil discusses the Ammonitish and Philistine’s dominions. For Isaiah 11.10-16, Prof. Henry discusses the later Messianic developments predicated on 11.1-9. Interesting perspective. For Romans 7, Prof. Hodge makes his beginning on the marital metaphor for one’s relation to the law and grace. For Acts 1.15-26, Prof. Henry discusses the predictive prophecy re: Judas Iscariot. Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” discusses Leucippus’s theory of atoms, the building blocks of all. For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge comments on the teleological argument. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond is still listing NT texts supporting God’s sovereignty and eternal election. For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof notes discusses the final state of the wicked, discussing hell, it gradation, and its eternity. ODCC: “High Priest:” discusses the office from the post-exilic to the Seleucid and Roman periods. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff breaks Paul’s life into 5 periods and begins with the first period, 40-44 AD. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff discusses how Christianity mollified but did not advocate for abolition of slavery. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff gives the background to Calvin’s search for a wife. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch discusses the Grynaues-Cranmer connection going back to 1531, to the 1535 development of contacts with the ABC (including Bucer) and, of all things, the Strassburg Reformers writing a gushing preface to Stephen Gardiner’s De Vera Obedientia, a propaganda piece for Henry. For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff comments on Zanchius’s period in Strassburg before the Lutheran repressions and takeovers. Same issues, then, as now. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #655-658 gives the summary of the RCC’s view of the resurrection, better stated that the non-confessionalist descendants of the Reformation (minus the Reformed and Lutheran Confessionalists). Westminster Confession of Faith 6.3: 3. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth: so also are all other elect persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.