Morning Prayer

Halley’s “Bible Handbook:” discusses the topography and location of Jerusalem. For Psalm 30, Prof. Calvin gives a summary before the exposition. Dedication of Jerusalem? Or, a Second Temple Psalm later? ISBE on “Leviticus:” notes how Leviticus is a covenant document arising out of Exodus. For Genesis 25: Prof. Keil concludes that discussion of Ishmaelites and their descendants. For Judges 14, Prof. Keil talks about Samson’s wedding and riddle. For Isaiah 13.19-22, Prof. Henry provides the wrap on Babylon’s doom, later fulfilled in the Medo-Persian conquest. ISBE on Johannine Theology, Prof. I. Howard Marshall comments on John’s view of Christian communal life. For Mathew 11.20-30, Prof. Jamieson comments on Jesus’s prayer thanking God for hiding and revealing Himself to whom He wills. Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” notes that Socrates was interested in ethics although raised in a school of cosmology. Socrates made room for the Greek gods. EDT: “The Last Judgment:” Dr. Hubbard provides the wrap on the subject, an avoided and underdeveloped locus, if Berkhof is to be believed. For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge speaks of Joseph Priestly’s biological epistemology of ideas as vibrations along the neural paths. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond discusses Vos’s long-talking about “redemptive acts.” Is Vos over-rated? ??. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Berkhof speaks of the incomprehensibility and knowability of God vis a vis Luther and Calvin. Very basic. ODCC: “General Theological Seminary:” the Editor speaks glowingly of GTS founded in 1817 with 100 students and, later, described by one of those romanticistic students as “Little Oxford.” GTS might have a dozen students now. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff is noting that the Judaizing party has a longer life than just Acts 15 might suggest. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch speaks of Dr. Cranmer’s efforts at staffing his open positions with evangelical protégés and his conflicts with the entrenched Warham clique in Canterbury. For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff speaks of the Saxon Articles some 25ish years before the Formula of Concord. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #767 speaks of the Holy Spirit's revealing of the Church in history. Westminster Confession of Faith 15.3: 3. Although repentance be not to be rested in, as any satisfaction for sin, or any cause of the pardon thereof, which is the act of God's free grace in Christ; yet it is of such necessity to all sinners, that none may expect pardon without it.