Relating to Gospel of John
44 ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν· ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὑμῶν καὶ προσεύχεσθε ὑπὲρ τῶν διωκόντων ὑμᾶς, 45 ὅπως γένησθε υἱοὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς - Love your enemies and pray on behalf of those who persecute you, that you might be sons of your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:44-45a, author's translation)The phrase "love your enemies" is certainly ...
12 Take care, brothers and sisters, so that there will not be in any of you an evil faithless heart by which to fall away from the living God, 13 but encourage one another every day as long as the day is still called Today, so that none from among you become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For ...
Question 1: What is meant by Book of the Law when Joshua is told, "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then ...
I came across an interesting entry in The Anglican Tradition: a Handbook of Sources edited by G. R. Evans that caught my eye this morning while I was reading. A little water is customarily added to the wine during the consecration of the elements (BCP, 404). But why? How has this come to us and what is it attempting to ...
Translation
4 For the whole house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God. 5 On the one hand, [1] Moses was faithful, as servant, in all his [2] house for a testimony of the things to be spoken later; 6 but on the other hand, Christ is faithful as Son, over his [3] house. We are his house if hold fast [4] ...
Translation
For in this subordinating all things to him, [a] God [b] has left nothing independent [c] of him. Now, however, we do not yet see all things having been subjected to him; 9 but we do see Jesus, who had been made lower than the angels for a short time, having been crowned with glory and honor because of his suffering of death ...
For those who enjoy context, our scripture readings this morning at St. John's were Acts 1:1-14; Psalm 47; 1 Peter 4:12-19; and John 17:1-11. ]now HT: St. John's Episcopal ...
28After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), "I thirst." 29A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. 30When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and ...
3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash ...
17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.12And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee; humbly beseeching thee that we, and all others who ...
Translation2 Through patience he overcame the unrighteous ruler and in this manner received the crown of immortality. While being overjoyed with the apostles and all the righteous he glorifies the God and Father Almighty and blesses the Lord Jesus Christ, the savior of our souls and captain [1] of our bodies and shepherd of the catholic church [2] throughout [3] ...
Translation1 So, they did not nail him to the pyre; rather they bound [a] him. He placed his hands behind [b] him and was bound - like a ram, outstanding from a great flock, for an offering, [c] a burnt offering acceptable to God having been prepared.
He lifted his eyes to heaven and said, "Lord, Almighty God, the Father of ...
Translation3 But the proconsul insisted, saying “Swear the oath, and I will set you free! [a] Revile [b] Christ!”
Polycarp replied, “Eighty and six years I have serving him and he has done me no wrong. So how can I blaspheme my king who saved me?”[a] ?????? to set free, release, pardon a prisoner for example Barabas in John 18:39 but ...
The Received Greek Text
The Received Latin Text
?????? ?????????, ???? ???????. ????.
carnis resurrectionem; vitam æternam. Amen.
Translationthe resurrection of the body, [1] and life eternal. [2] Amen.[1] ?????? (????) is the word St. John uses to speak of the Incarnation where the Logos became flesh (? ????? ???? ???????, Jn 1:14). This is the flesh that was just like ours. The ...
The Received Greek Text
The Received Latin Text
τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἀναστάντα ἀπὸ τῶν νεκρῶν, ἀνελθόντα εἰς τοὺς οὐρανούς, ...
tertia die resurrexit a mortuis; ascendit ad cælos; ...
Translationon the third day he was raised [1] from among the dead, was taken up [2] into heaven,[1] ἀναστάντα (ἀνίστημι) in this passive participial form is not used in the NT. Polycarp in ...
Vibrant Sanctified LifeGod in his mercies gave us in Christ Jesus a new mind a new set of desires that are beyond what we could imagine before. Paul is urging us on here to that greater immeasurable Christian imagination. Now why do I put it like that?
Lewis put it something like this:Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises ...
A sermon preached at Arlington (Texas) Presbyterian ...
???????????????? ??????Covenant Remembrance and the Second Giving of the Lawcovenant renewal ????????????15“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— 16just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let ...
It is no coincidence that John informs us that Philip, whom Jesus had found, was from "Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter." Bethsaida was a fishing town just down the western shore of the Sea of Galilee from Capernaum, where Peter had built his home. "It is not unlikely that as fishermen in a fishing cooperative with ...
My wife and I not knowing much about fine art, purchased a course on the paintings on display in the Louvre and have been amazed at all that can be found in a single painting. One famous painting, now infamous thanks to Dan Brown, that we learned about was the Mona Lisa. Up to this point, my education ...
