In the natural order of justice, [sin’s] punishment ought to be infinitely great; but as that is impossible, since the creature is incapable of suffering pain in an infinite degree, infinity in greatness is compensated by infinity in duration. ~ Robert Haldane

Pretty special day today getting the opportunity to spend some time with a 1536 Tyndale New Testament. This spectacularly preserved copy was printed the very year William Tyndale was burned at the stake. Tyndale is usually credited with coining or first popularizing a small but highly influential set of English biblical terms. One of which you can see on the very page Im looking at: atonement. Tyndale’s motivation was basically translation theology: he wanted an English word that could carry the biblical idea of estranged parties being made “at one” again, especially God and sinners through Christ. The word “atonement” appears to have existed just before Tyndale; Thomas More is often cited as an early user around 1513, meaning “reconciliation” or settlement after conflict. But Tyndale seems to have been the one who gave it its powerful biblical-theological career in English Bible translation, especially from 1526 onward. The word literally expressed “at-one-ment.” In early English, “atonement” meant something like being at one, concord, agreement, reconciliation. That made it useful for rendering biblical concepts of reconciliation between God and humanity. Tyndale used “atonement” because “reconciliation” alone did not fully capture, in earthy English, the biblical idea that Christ’s saving work makes God and sinners “at one.” It was a translator’s solution, but also a Reformation theological choice.

Who's right, Owen or Vos? "John 5:26. He is therefore the essential image of the Father, because all the properties of the divine nature are communicated unto him together with personality—from the Father." (Owen) "Does not John 5:26 speak of a communication of being? No" (Vos)

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Photos of this handwritten essay by @DrJamesEglinton, introduction by @corycbrock, postscript by @tennantjc, translation by @postnuance, edited by @CodyEdds. Published for the first time, Herman Bavinck on The Origin and Value of Mythology: brdh.org/party/the-origin-an…

In the neglect of habitual self-examination, and a well-ordered conversation, the light of orthodox profession will partake more of the speculative character than the influential; and the “knowledge that puffs up” will often be substituted for the “charity that edifies.” ~Bridges

Henry Ainsworth, James Durham, John Cotton, John Gill

Ernest Reisinger “Providence is a queer old teacher. First, she gives you the test; then she gives you the lessons.”

Truly wild to reread these sermon excerpts. Spurgeon: v25: “I think it is no stretch of the imagination to believe that as this world is only one speck in the creation of God, there may be millions of other races in the countless worlds around us.” v45: “It may be true that all those majestic orbs that stud the midnight sky are worlds filled with intelligent beings. And it is much more easy to believe that they are than that they are not, for, surely, God has not built all those magnificent mansions and left them untenanted!” v46: “I cannot tell you how many races of intelligent beings there are beside the hierarchy of angels, but it is not at all improbable that there are as many worlds as there are grains of sand upon the seashore—and perhaps every one of these teems with inhabitants more than our earth does.” v55: “It may be that every starry world teems with myriads of intelligent inhabitants—it is much more likely that it should be so than that it should not be so, seeing that God is not in the habit of creating anything in vain.”

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Walked past an alligator on my walk this morning. Chill. Friendly. Nearly assaulted just now by a raccoon on the front porch. Savage. Misanthrope.

Keep your head up. Your memories may only be fully accessible to you, but Christ has seen it all. “You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?” (Ps 56:8)

“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.” - Ephesians 5:22-23 “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.” - Colossians 3:18 “But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.” - 1 Corinthians 11:3 “Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives.” - 1 Peter 3:1 “Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.” - 1 Peter 3:6 “That they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.” - Titus 2:4-5 “The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.” - Proverbs 31:11-12 “one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence” 1 Timothy 3:4

Husbands, love your wives, whether or not she submits to you. Wives, submit to your husbands, whether or not he loves you. Your obedience to the Lord in these areas will be a witness to your spouse.

"There is a great difference betwixt an allegoric exposition of scripture, and an exposition of allegoric scripture: the first is when men allegorize plain scriptures, seeking to draw out some secret meaning, and so will fasten many senses upon one Scripture." -James Durham

Can you tell by comparing the NA28 to the LSB why I wish there were two more English words in all capitals in 1 Peter 3:15, and how it would clarify its message to English readers?

“A company of mean-spirited, wicked men, who are no bigger than bees, mentally or spiritually, can get together, and sting a good man in a thousand places, till he is well-nigh maddened by their scorn, their ridicule, their slander, and their misrepresentation.

"Let the preacher aim at the heart, and preach the all conquering love of Jesus, and he will by God's grace win more doubters to the faith of the gospel than any hundred of the best reasoners who only direct their arguments to the head." - C. H. Spurgeon

"Sometimes, the best thing that we can do is to go to bed. You are worrying and troubling yourself, and you can do nothing; go to sleep, brother." ~ C. H. Spurgeon

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