OT/NT/ST/CH: 12/7/2022

Halley’s “Bible Handbook:” deals with Cain, Abel, and the generations for Genesis 4-6.

For Psalm 31, Prof. Calvin comments on God taking down the pride.

Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Israel:” deals with an overview of the Solomonic period and distinctives.

For Genesis 30: Prof. Keil comments on the labor contract between Laban and Jacob. Jacob is about to head to his ancestral homeland with Rachel, Leah, handmaids and children

For Judges 18, Prof. Keil comments on Dan, the priesthood and this event as a foreshadowing of Jeroboam’s later policy.

For Isaiah 14.4-23, Prof. Henry deals with Assyria’s and Philistia’s downfall.

ISBE on Johannine Letters, Prof. I. Howard Marshall comments on fake professors, claiming to be believers but being loveless.

For Mathew 12.29, Prof. Jamieson comments on Jesus’s statement that there are no idle words that will not be addressed in the Great Assize.

For Romans 8.28, Prof. Hodge comments on election, providence and eternal security.

For Acts 2.37-42, Prof. Henry notes how Peter’s auditors were “pricked in their hearts” at the sermon.

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 comments on atomic issues, the vegetable kingdom, the animal kingdom and human kingdom.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond provides an exegetical foray from the Hebrew into Genesis 3—highlighting the Devil’s subtlety.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Berkhof comments on divine sovereignty and God’s will.

ODCC: “accommodations:” uses or applications of a text in a way differing from an originating author.  

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff comments discusses the several years in the leadup to Rome’s destruction of Jerusalem (66-70 AD).

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff is long-talking about Greek hymnists, some iconoclasts and some iconolaters.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff comments on the Consistorial activities of St. Peter’s, St. Gervais and a third church.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch comments comments on Henry’s show trial of John Lambert.

Philip Schaff’s “Creeds of Christendom, Vol.1:” Prof. Schaff continues discussed the full picture of Zwingli’s clear-headed theology.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs # 860 discusses the apostles appointing successors.