𝕮𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖇 𝕯𝖎𝖝𝖔𝖓 𝕾𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖍

It is extremely and incomprehensibly incoherent to read any references to “Israel” in Romans 11 as about the Church/elect in general. It's all fleshly Israel.

Every time I read this I wonder why Mark/Peter felt the need to say this. Maybe @zugzwanged can unlock the mystery for one.

I should utterly have fainted,
but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the Lᴏʀᴅ in the land of the living.
— Psalm 27:15

So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, 
and like a giant refreshed with wine.
— Psalm 78:66

Coverdale's got a terrifying image here

Lift not up your horn on high:
speak not with a stiff neck.
For promotion cometh neither from the east,
nor from the west, nor from the south.
But God is the judge:
he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
— Psalm 75:5-7

Imagine if they had made “Where You Are” the moral heart of Moana.

Sacred doctrine makes use of [philosophical] authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable.
— Thomas Aquinas

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.
— 1 John 5:1

The LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day.
— Deuteronomy 6:24

While this doesn't necessarily entail adopting a slate of economically left-wing policies, as some imagine, Christians ought to make it a more conspicuous component of our political identity that our God “forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.”

I love how Eusebius just basically says Papias was stupid to explain his chiliasm.

Eusebius notes the authenticity and canonicity of 2 Peter as still dubious in his own day, portraying those who accept it as the minority.

Today in Bible the Euthyphro dilemma raised itself, and the conversation took a real turn when one student, with a great look of epiphany, asked, “Wait, what if God, like, literally IS goodness???”

I love this job

One of the transitions from Old to New Testament was making the people of God, to put it a bit cheaply, too big to fail.

“That righteousness by which we are now justified is perfect, but not inherent. That righteousness by which we are sanctified is inherent, but not perfect.”

Richard Hooker on our threefold righteousness:
“There is a glorifying righteousness for men in the world to come; and there is a justifying and a sanctifying righteousness here and now. The righteousness with which we shall be clothed in the world to come is both perfect and inherent.

If the world would know what a perfectly righteous man looks like, then it must behold a Christian man, for Christ “was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteous and sanctification, and redemption.”
— Richard Hooker

You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
— Exodus 22:28

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
— Proverbs 4:18

For it has been reported to me on X that there is quarreling among you. Each of you says, “I follow Ogden,” or “I follow Moscow,” or “I follow Wolfe,” or “I follow Christ.”
— 21st century Paul, probably

It is so far from being true that this justifying faith makes men remiss in a pious and holy life, that on the contrary without it they would never do anything out of love to God, but only out of self-love or fear of damnation.
— Belgic Confession

> be me, a teacher
> grading student papers, a little behind
> bored/tired, tempted to do something else
> read student paper
> "You should never be wasting time, and you should do necessary things while you wait for other stuff."
> convicted

For just as something can be said of a man regarding his body, for example, to be touched or wounded, and something regarding his soul, for example, to understand and to will, so, too, something can be said of Christ both as to his divine nature, as when he says: I and the Father are one (John 10:30), and as to his human nature, as when we say that he was crucified and died. — Thomas Aquinas on Romans 1:4

Good stuff found in my old posts

FB memory from 2019:
“Someone help me. I spent almost my whole lunch break today editing i3 configs in the terminal.”

It's fascinating to me that Paul opens his letter to the Corinthians, of all people, with the confidence that Christ will sustain them to be *guiltless* in the day of the Lord.

All the soul we render
Back to Thee completely,
Trusting Thou wilt tend her
Through the deathlike hours,
And all night remake her
To Thy likeness sweetly,
Then with dawn awake her
And give back her powers.
— C. S. Lewis, Evensong

Guy who thinks Christians using Psalm 128 is the Prosperity Gospel

(Many such Big Eva cases)

Our soul is by far the noblest part of us, and the blessings which it is capable of enjoying are solid and eternal; while the enjoyments of the body, besides being greatly inferior, are frail and perishing.
— Witsius

The great question is, what is the native meaning of the words themselves viewed in their whole connection? it being always taken for granted that they contain nothing which is unworthy of Christ to teach, or of Christians to learn.
— Witsius giving a little Hermeneutics 101

[God] has his own secret entrances to the will, and acts upon it with a power which cannot be resisted, but with a power which makes it willing, and which, therefore, instead of injuring, declares, confirms, and maintains the freedom of the will.
— Witsius