Thursday, March 31, 2022

Augustine: The Four Gospels Are United, Because They Were All Written By Christ

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  Image: St. Augustine, writing in his cell, by Sandro Botticelli, 1480. Here are some notes from Augustine’s Harmony of the Evangelists 1....
Monday, March 28, 2022

Augustine, Harmony of the Evangelists.1.33-35: "As if they were his own hands"

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  Notes: 1.33: A statement in opposition to those who make the complaint that the bliss of human life has been impaired by the entrance of...
Friday, March 25, 2022

The Vision (3.25.22): Spurgeon on the Parable of the Tares of the field

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  Image: Forsythia, North Garden, Virginia, March 2022. Note: Ipreached last Sunday on the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares in Matthew ...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

WM 231: Gurry: Should Mark 16:9-20 be treated as Apocrypha?

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  Watch the original video under review here. JTR
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Augustine, Harmony of the Evangelists.1.31-32: "The God of the whole earth" (Isaiah 54:5)

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  Image: Isaiah, 1838, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) Notes: 1.31: The fulfillment of prophecies concerning Christ. Augustine co...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Text Note: Luke 4:18: "to heal the brokenhearted"

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  Image: North Garden, Virginia. March 19, 2022. From my twitter (@Riddle1689) (3/17/22): Devotional reading today in Luke 4 on Christ...
Friday, March 18, 2022

The Vision (3.18.22): Who are the Stony Ground Hearers?

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  Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on Matthew 13:1-23 (audio not yet available). But he that received the seed into stony ...

Article: R. L. Vaughn, Why "Which Textus Receptus"?

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  You can read the original article here at the Seeking the Old Paths blog. Introduction. In 2020, Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal publish...
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Thursday, March 17, 2022

WM 230: PROBLEMS with modern text advocacy: Are Gurry and Hixson reconstructing the autograph?

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  Watch the clip under review here. A few quotes: D. C. Parker: "We can use philology to reconstruct an Initial Text. But we need not ...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Notes on Plato's Crito

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  Image: Marble bust of Socrates, Roman copy, c. 1-2 century, AD. Continuing my reading notes on Plato’s Tetralogy ( see previous here ): ...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Notes on Plato's Apology

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  Image: The death of Socrates, Jacques Louis David, 1787. Last week I started re-reading the tetralogy from Plato’s dialogues regarding the...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Vision (3.11.22): His mother and his brethren stood without

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  Image: Twelfth century façade of the supposed Tomb of the Virgin Mary in Jerusalem. Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on ...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Andy Crouch: Why physical books are better than digital screens

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  Our family has been reading Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family (Baker, 2017) in family devotions. Just finished an interesting section wh...

The "brethren" of Christ: Siblings or Kinsmen?

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  Image: Traditional site of Mary's house in Ephesus. Posted this on twitter yesterday and thought I’d repost here (reflecting on Sunday...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2022

Augustine, Harmony of the Evangelists.1.28-30: Isaiah 2 & Psalm 19 & Christ's Triumph

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  Image: Sunrise, Pantheon, Rome JTR
Monday, March 07, 2022

WM 229: Interjú: Miklós Chiciudean, Reformált Baptista Gyülekezet, Budapest

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  My first attempt to do a podcast interview in Hungarian. Thanks to Pastor  Miklós for his patience. For a similar conversation in English...
Friday, March 04, 2022

The Vision (3.4.22): We would see a sign from thee

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Image: Beaded work, from "These Memories Can't Wait: Beryl Solla, A Retrospective," PVCC, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 202...