Relating to Romans
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 ...
1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him ...
Christ is not just one link in the Fullness of the Godhead's series of emanations. All the Divine Fullness dwells in Him. And not only that, but the Divine Fullness dwells in Him bodily. It is not, as the Gnostics asserted, that the true Divine Nature would not deign to soil Itself with contact with the bodily; corruptible world. On ...
Translation1 Therefore, blessed and noble [a] are all the martyrs according to the will of God which has brought them to pass. For it is necessary, being more [b] God-fearing, to ascribe to God power over all things. 2 For at their nobility, fortitude, and love for their Master [c] who should not marvel? After they were torn to shreds ...
The Received Greek Text
The Received Latin Text
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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 ...
Participation and TransformationLord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy upon ...
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 ...
The Mercies of God as the Basis for Sanctification and Paul's UrgingPaul had written to the church at Rome. That church had some life in it in its own right. He was hashing out some of the main points of the Gospel for them and he turns to urge these good Christian people towards their created purpose. In ...
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The revealed truth in the inspired scriptures.
The sacraments.
Prayer
The gracious discipline of God's providence
It must be remembered that while the subject is passive with respect to that divine act of grace whereby he is regenerated, after he is regenerated he cooperates with the Holy Ghost in the work of sanctification. The Holy Ghost gives the grace, and prompts and directs ...
When Paul pens Romans 12:1-2, he has in mind the unspeakable, immeasurable wonder of what is ours in Jesus Christ. Jesus is the man that has already experienced resurrection and brings that life giving purpose from the future into this world here and now.
We who are in Christ, who is himself the image of God in whom the likeness of ...
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Letters of friendship (cf. 2 Cor 1:16; 5:3; Phil 1:7–8)
Family letters
Letters of praise and blame (1 Cor 11; Rev 2–3)
Exhortatory or paraenetic letters (1 Thess 1-5; the Pastorals)
Letters of mediation or recommendation (Phil 2:19-30, Philemon)
Juridical or forensic letters (1 Cor 9:3-12; 2 Cor 1:8-2:13)
Private or documentary letters
Official letters
Literary ...
Osborne, Grant R. "Hermeneutics/Interpreting Paul." In Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. Gerald F. Hawthorne, Ralph P. Martin and Daniel G. Reid, 388-396. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1993.I have some time off from preaching for a while, so I am diving into Paul, especially the book of Romans after spending much time in Genesis, Deuteronomy and the Psalms. ...
My wife and I are reading through a most contemplation evoking paper presently on the Eucharist that has sparked a great wonder and awe of God in me. Traditionally, we have thought of God as being of infinitely greater and altogether different kind of being from which we have our being analogously. Even so, one of my favorite theologians begins ...
16 Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way. 17 The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, 18 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of ...
