OT/NT/ST/CH: 12/8/2022

Halley’s “Bible Handbook:” deals with Cain, Abel, and the generations for Genesis 4-6. For Psalm 31, Prof. Calvin comments on prayer. Zondervan Pictorial Bible: “Israel:” deals with an overview of the Solomonic period and distinctives. For Genesis 31: Prof. Keil comments Jacob’s plan to head home to his father. For Judges 19, Prof. Keil comments on the impending inter-tribal warfare, something occurring just after Joshua’s passing and early in the period of the Judges. 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 gives the doctrines outlined in the eighth chapter up to verse 28. For Acts 2.37-42, Prof. Henry notes how Peter addressed the audience as men and brethren. They reciprocated to the Apostles as brethren. 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, the decretive and prescriptive will, Other distinctions are discussed, but are rebuffed due to other liabilities. ODCC: “accommodations:” uses or applications of a text in a way differing from an originating author. One use of accommodation is that God adapts His communications to our finite minds. Illiberals of the Aufklarung turned this upon classic doctrines, e.g. the atonement was dessicated and dehydrated as a specimen of accommodation. 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 discipline in Geneva. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch comments on Henry’s show trial of John Lambert. Dr. Cranmer in 1555 notes that he held to the Romanists’ view in 1538, not the Luthero-Romanist view. Philip Schaff’s “Creeds of Christendom, Vol.1:” Prof. Schaff continues discussed the full picture of Zwingli’s clear-headed theology, including Lutheran’s dilution of Luther’s Augustinianism, and the Reformed doctrine of election controlling the sacraments. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs # 860 discusses the holy catholic church.