If you put your hands together in the traditional praying posture, your fingers might remind you of some things to pray for: Thumbs: your ...

Some further jottings. Bavinck is especially good in describing and defending what he calls a more organic (historical and psychological) vi...

Yesterday I heard a helpful exposition of Luke 10:38-42, the account of Mary and Martha. Alliteration's aidful art was perhaps worth not...

Bavinck gives examples of the following senses of the word of God: (1) the power of God by which he creates and upholds all things ...

“we are often surprised by the meaning that the NT authors find in the text of the OT … [list of examples] In the case of Jesus and the ...

Bavinck again: “All that can be said is that the recognition of these writings in the churches occurred automatically, without any for...

I'm afraid I've not been able to resist typing out chunks of Bavinck. Bavinck argues that there is a striking difference in the wa...

In my humble opinion, Dr Garry Williams is always worth listening to. I have just had an excellent pre-breakfast work out with his paper fro...

Obviously it would be helpful! Whitaker acknowledges the different styles of the human authors of Scripture but goes on to say: “Althoug...

According to William Whitaker's Disputation on Holy Scripture : (1) prayer (p467) – Mt 7, ask etc.; James 1:5 (2) know th...

Augustine: de Doctr. Christ. Lib. II. c. 6: “The Holy Spirit hath so modified the scriptures, combining ornament with utility, as to provid...

William Whitaker suggests 9 reasons though he says "other causes more besides these might be adduced": (1) So that we pray for ...

I have not spent time tidying up these notes and the Hebrew transliterations are random, but in case this is of any help to anyone: Ps...

The “prophets and apostles may have written some things in the ordinary way to private persons, as, for instance David sent private lett...

Whitaker argues that the church is: (1) notary - witness and guardian of the sacred writings (p283) (2) champion - “the church is, to d...

William Whitaker defends vernacular Bible translations, services and prayers at length against the Roman Catholics of his day in his Disputa...

Origen apparently thought that “the mere words of scripture may have a beneficial effect, after the manner of a spell, upon the man who ...

It was a privilege today to attend the funeral of The Revd John Cheeseman . Using an idea from someone else, the preacher said that death ...

William Whitaker wants translators to err in the direction of word for word literalness:   “it behoves a translator of scripture not mer...

The Council of Trent makes this pretty extraordinary claim for the Latin Vulgate: "Moreover, the same sacred and holy Synod,--conside...