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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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Forbidding to Marry
There is a very old error that derogates marriage and attempts to forbid marriage. In its extreme form, it forbids marriage of all Christians. In a less extreme form, it forbids marriage of office holders. It is that form that we see in the Roman Catholic church today. Introduction 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Now the Spirit…
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Natural Family Planning and the Traditional View on Sexual Relations
The introduction of and widespread insistence on a celibate priesthood seems to have led to a number of views in the Nicene era (give or take a hundred years), which continued to hold sway for a few generations after the Reformation. Thus, for example, it was believed that virginity was – in itself – a…
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Andreas of Caesarea on the Woman of Revelation 12
Andreas of Caesarea wrote the earliest complete commentary on the book of Revelation that we have available. I’m very thankful that Eugenia Constantinou has recently provided a complete English translation of this work (copy of that translation available: here). Andreas, following the patristic consensus, refers the woman of Revelation 12 to the church rather than…
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Sin of Onan
*** Caveat *** Onan’s sin was something disgusting, something that displeased God, and for which Onan was slain. The reason I’m spending a whole post on this topic is that recently some Roman Catholics have been trying to use the issue of Onan’s sin as some sort of argument that “Protestant” folks are unwilling to…
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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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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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Jerome Regarding the Septuagint
I recently happened to stumble across this interesting translation of Jerome’s Prologue to Chronicles (link). Jerome makes a number of interesting comments about the Septuagint: 1) Jerome begins by noting that the Septuagint is not a pure translation: If the version of the Seventy translators is pure and has remained as it was rendered by…