Morning Prayer

“The Fundamentals—A Testimony to the Truth, Vol. 1:” in “History of Higher Criticism,” Dean Dyson Hague discusses Eichorn, De Wette, Graf and Wellhausen, developers of Astruc’s precipitating germ. Halley’s “Bible Handbook:” read the Bible often, thoughtfully, applicatorily and without fear of destructive critics. For Psalm 27, Prof. Calvin comments on David’s fixity and assurance of faith and hope in God. Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Abraham:” comments on Abraham’s travels, Egypt included. ISBE on “Leviticus:” comments on the similarity in priestly focus between Chronicles and Leviticus as purported evidence for a post-exilic date of composition of Leviticus. For Genesis 18: Prof. Keil comments on Sodom and Abraham’s prayer for deliverance for the righteous. For Judges 10.6-16, Prof. Keil finishes the chapter on the war of the City of Man against God’s City of God. For Isaiah 11.10-16, Prof. Henry speaks to the reunion of Jews and Gentiles in the Messianic age. ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall notes that Jesus is God, “My Lord and my God” in John 20.28. For Mathew 10.1ff., Prof. Jamieson discusses the apostolic lists. For Romans 7, Prof. Hodge discusses union with Christ—dead to sin and the law’s penal sanctions and justified and alive in, to and with Christ. For Acts 1.15-26, Prof. Henry discusses the apostles’ mission: proclamation of the resurrection life of Jesus. Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” a marvelous review of Pre-Socratics again (after doing such earlier again). EDT: “John Knox (1514? - 1572):” establishment of church order in Scotland. For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge exquisitely goes into human anatomy and its details evincing intelligence, will, and design. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond comments on free agency, the will, and human responsibility in Reformed Theology. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Berkhof discusses God’s opera ad extra: creation and providence. ODCC: Hilarion (291-373): ascetic, familiar with Antony and known to Epiphanius and Jerome. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff comments on Paul, Athens, Corinth, and writers in later centuries from Athens. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff notes the impact of Christianity is isolating a crime to the perpetrator rather than tribalism. Several medieval Synods address this, limiting wider violence amongst the tribalistic barbarians. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff comments on Calvin’s love for his wife and the warmth of Calvin’s correspondence. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch comments on Bullinger’s early engagement and effort to establish rapport with Dr. Cranmer. Three English, evangelical students in 1536, called “proteges” of Cranmer, excited inform Bullinger of their ABC. For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff reviews Zanchius’s godly and scholarly life as an Italian Reformer exiled variously. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #662-664 put forward remarks that should and do embarrass the non-confessing/non-confessionalist Anglicans. Westminster Confession of Faith 11.1: CHAPTER 11 Of Justification 1. Those whom God effectually calleth, he also freely justifieth: not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; nor by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them, they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness, by faith; which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.