The Scriptures on the Cross, The cross in the Scriptures. Biblical answers to the Cross of Christ...Why the Cross, Why the Crucifix
Instead, theological interpretation of the Scriptures has a limitless capacity to speak to pressing circumstances if we will but engage them anew, bringing new voices—new metaphors, theological arguments, and input from the sciences—to the table.Bennett, Thomas Andrew...
The tall lad rose from his seat and turned the pages of the manuscript. It was a copy of Jerome’s version of the Scriptures in Latin, and the marked place was in the letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians,—the passage where he describes the preparation of the Christian as the arming ...
Babylonian sculptures show us bearded potentates hunting ferocious lions from the safe vantage points of small armored rickshaws.Homer juggles with carts as he juggles with kings.The vehicles of the Scriptures do not content themselves with the highroads of this earth, but boldly burst forth, int...
Among the evidence that supports a contextual reading of the citation in the Markan narrative is, (a) the importance of Jesus' impending resurrection/vindication and its foreshadowing in the Markan narrative; (b) the relatively consistent contextual use of the scriptures in the narrative prior to ...
Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ, We fly, in hope to get his glorious soul; Nor will we come, unless he use such means Whereby he is in danger to be damn’d. Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring Is stoutly to abjure the Trinity, And pray devoutly to the prince of hel...
Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good; for one of two things—either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another...
“But all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.” Matt. 26:56 The final portion of the verse, “Then I will turn My hand against the little ones.” This may refer to the persecution that would follow, or ...
Thy praises, Lord, Thy praises might have stayed the yet tender shoot of my heart by the prop of Thy Scriptures; so had it not trailed away amid these empty trifles, a defiled prey for the fowls of the air. For in more ways than one do men sacrifice to the rebellious angels. But...
It is a cry of accomplishment, but it is also an announcement of obedience fulfilled. This shout began in the painful will of the Father -- the cup, the baptism, the suffering, the cross. "It is finished" announces the full obedience of the One who, though equal with God: ...