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Commentary on the Book of Jonah – Haimo of Auxerre
I’m grateful to translator Deborah Everhart (and in general the consortium for the teaching of the Middle Ages) for providing a very readable translation from the original Latin of Haimo of Auxerre’s Commentary on Jonah. Haimo died around A.D. 875. So this is not an “early church” commentary, but it is part of Western church…
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Deedat and Jonah
I just listened to two Ahmed Deedat debates (contra McDowell and contra Douglas), both of which featured a very similar pair of arguments regarding the sign of Jonah. Each debate features both arguments, with largely the same flourishes – though there were some differences. The first argument is presented with a great deal of showmanship…
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Hugh Martin on the Duty of the Civil Magistrate
A beloved family member recently brought to my attention the following passage from Hugh Martin’s (1822-85) Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 19, on Jonah 3:6-8, 10, pp. 277-81 (1995 Banner of Truth reprinting, but I think the pagination is unchanged from the first edition). The passage is relevant to the issue of whether or not the…
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The World’s Worst Evangelist
He enters the city, spends the first day just getting himself deeper into the city, and then preaches his message: Yet forty days, and the city shall be overthrown. He doesn’t have any particular care for the people of the city, and you can see it on his face. He’s just going through the motions.…