OT/NT/ST/CH: 12/16/2022

Halley’s “Bible Handbook:” deals with Noah, the Flood and aftermath. Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Israel:” deals with an overview of the divided kingdom down to Hezekiah’s days, c. 726ish BCP. For Genesis 31: Prof. Keil comments on the covenant established between Laban and Jacob calling God to be the witness. The sign of the covenant was an heap of stones. For Judges 19, Prof. Keil comments on the story of the Levite’s domicile north of Jerusalem. A repeat of the Sodom and Gomorrah story unfolds. A hostile crowd demands the women in the house. The Levite hands his concubine over. She dies after a night of abuse. For Isaiah 14.4-23, Prof. Henry deals with the predicted downfall of Philistia and Moab. ISBE on Johannine Letters, Prof. I. Howard Marshall comments on fake professors, claiming to be believers but being loveless. For Mathew 12.40ff., Prof. Jamieson comments on two stunning claims by Jesus, (1) “One greater than Jonah is here,” and (2) “One greater than Solomon is here.” For Romans 8.28, Prof. Hodge gives the doctrines begins summarizing the glorious security and glorious promises of 8.29-39. Foreknowledge and predestination are on view for starters. For Acts 2.37-42, Prof. Henry notes how Peter addressed the audience with “Repent and be baptized” not just in Jehovah’s name, but Jesus’s name. Frederick Copleston’s “History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome (1.1):” discusses Socrates’s theory of knowledge—it’s not sensorial. EDT: “Laying on of Hands:” the ecclesiastical instances are noted in the OT and NT. For Theology Proper (locus 2): Prof. Hodge is long-talking the materialists with a flat-lining metaphysics. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond begins to exposit 7 effects of the fall. #1 is shame and guilt, coupled with the couples’ memory of the pre-fall context in contrast with the post-fall context. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Berkhof comments on divine sovereignty and God’s will, the decretive and prescriptive will, Other distinctions are discussed, but are rebuffed due to other liabilities. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff comments on the tactical situation of Titus and his eighty-thousand trained Roman soldiers perched on Mt. Scopus and Mt. Olivet. The zealots are desperate and brave. Famine is also causing hunger in Jerusalem. The stage is set for the divinely ordered take-down. Marcion, you’re dismissed. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff is begins his discussion of Latin hymnody in this period—much of it suffused, 100s of pages, with Mariolatry. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff comments on the discipline in Geneva. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch comments on the lead-up in early 1539 to the Six Articles. Also, “justification by Christ’s merits only” is getting traction in some quarters in London. We know that Henry knows of that. Philip Schaff’s “Creeds of Christendom, Vol.1:” Prof. Schaff continues discussed the full picture of Zwingli’s clear-headed theology on the Eucharist, real absence as to Christ’s body to the believer, but Real Presence by Jesus’s divine nature and the Father and the Spirit. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs # 872ff, constantly have Petrine supremacy and Apostolic successors playing in the background whatever else is being discussed.