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Short (D.V.) Blogging Outage
I will be away from the blog for about then 72 hours, Lord Willing. I plan to return. I apologize to those whose comments will be frozen in a stasis in the meantime. To God be the Glory!
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Aquinas' Affirmation of the Primacy of Scripture
A few folks have thought that the following quotation is significant with respect to the issue of Aquinas’ view of Scripture’s primacy. I answer that, Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal…
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David's Son – an Unworkable Argument
One of David’s sons died in infancy. David mourned him before he died, but stopped grieving when the child died. This puzzled the servants of David. When asked about his odd behavior: 2 Samuel 12:22-23And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD…
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Don't Be Surprised if You Make Some Mistakes
Jerome wrote: And if the ingenuity of perverse men finds something which they may plausibly censure in the writings even of evangelists and prophets, are you amazed if, in your books, especially in your exposition of passages in Scripture which are exceedingly difficult of interpretation, some things be found which are not perfectly correct? –…
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A Day in God's Courts is Better than 1000 Elsewhere
A friend recently asked, in the comment box, for me to comment on the following verse: Psalm 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For context, I provide the entirety…
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The Importance of Genealogies
The whole of the Bible is useful for doctrine, reproof, and so forth. Sometimes, when read a genealogy we can become bored, because its value is not immediately apparent. One use for these genealogies is responding to groups who make false historical claims. I recently have been using them in response to Harold Camping. However,…
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Recently a Man in High Power Passed Away
Quite recently a notorious American politician passed away. From all we can tell, he was an enemy of God and a disgrace even to his false religion. This post is dedicated to his memory, which I hope will soon pass. Psalm 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be…
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The real Francis Turretin on: The Relation of Christ to God's Love
The Howling Wilderness blog (which has a lovely Slavic subtitle that reminds me that there is an end to the howling wilderness of our pilgrimage in the heavenly rest) has a quotation from the real Francis Turretin on the topic of the relation of God’s love to Christ’s work as mediator (link). It’s important to…
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Did Hippo, Carthage, or Rome's Bishop Settle the Canon?
Some Roman Catholics are under the false impression that the councils of Hippo (A.D. 393) and/or Carthage (A.D. 397) authoritatively settled the canon of Scripture for the church – either directly or by endorsement by one or more Roman bishops. To be deep in history, however, is to cease to be so naive. John of…
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Aquinas Opera Omnia – Fretté & Maré – Index Page
The collection of all of Thomas Aquinas’ works was undertaken by editors Paul Maré and Stanislai Eduardi Fretté in what is (to my knowledge) the largest collection of Aquinas’ writings. Google Books has digitized many volumes of this collection (in two collections – first collection and second collection, and I’ve provided links to the relevant…