OT/NT/ST/CH: 12/21/2022

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 20, 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. The tribes rise up against Benjamin who refuse to hand over the sexual abusers and murderers. 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 2 John’s authorship and the recipients. 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: “Leibniz (1646-1716): a German scholar serving in the House of Brunwick and trying to mollify Protestant-Papist conflicts. 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. #2 is the guilt-game ultimately accusing God for the fall. It’s the origin of Shiftiness. For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Berkhof comments on divine sovereignty and God’s will, the decretive and prescriptive will, 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. OHD: “Acolyte:” a second of minor orders for those assisting the Minister at Holy Communion. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch comments on the printing of the Great Bible, authorized in April 1538 with its title page showing Henry handing the Bible to Cranmer on his right to and Cromwell on his left hand. Philip Schaff’s “Creeds of Christendom, Vol.1:” Prof. Schaff continues discussed the full picture of Zwingli’s clear-headed theology on the Eucharist. Zwingli insisted on the Real Presence of Christ—Christ in us and we in Him—in a communion service. The exegesis of varied passages is clear. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs # 874ff, begin to address the “hierarchal composition” of the church, asserting Christ’s authorization.