I read the Sermon on the Mount often as a child—mainly because I thought it was cool that it was the biggest stretch of red letters I could find in the New Testament. But Jesus’ teaching there is so simple and powerful that, despite my inane motivation, Jesus’ famous...
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I can read English, Spanish, Greek, Hebrew, German, and Latin, in that order of fluidity. Truth be known, my German is mainly structural, my Latin mainly vestigial—though the latter is strengthened by my Greek. This mix of training means I can piece together a good...
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If you aren't meticulous in your note-taking, always using quotation marks and saving your full citation, you might accidentally do this: One of the distinguishing marks of the child of God is love, a love that originates in God, displays itself in actions of...
BibleWorks and WORDsearch vs. Logos 4
I am the holder of a sacred trust. Both of you look to me—both of you trust me—to deliver unbiased analysis of Bible software trends. And now my favorite underdog Bible software company is making it hard for me. I recently got the e-mail below, and I’m just not sure...
Warfield: “Are They Few that Be Saved?”
This is my own summary of Warfield’s article, “Are They Few that Be Saved?” I am studying the issue because I am writing on Matthew 7:13-14 for the BJU Press Bible Truths series. “The paucitas salvandorum [the idea that few will be saved] has long ranked among a wide...
A Point I Never Noticed in the Lord’s Prayer
I’ve prayed the Lord’s Prayer throughout my life both verbatim and, more often, as a template. I’ve also sung it many times in a great men’s quartet arrangement of the Malotte setting. But I never noticed a simple point about the first line that numbers of...
News Flash: D.A. Carson Makes an Insightful Point!
Carson comments on Matthew 6:7, in which Jesus warns kingdom pray-ers, “Use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do.” His point is that his disciples should avoid meaningless, repetitive prayers offered under the misconception that mere length will make prayers...
An Apt Comment from R.T. France on Matthew 6
Each major section of Matthew 6 (the second of the three chapters relating the Sermon on the Mount) contrasts earthly and heavenly rewards. The unregenerate are known for their pursuit of earthly treasures and earthly rewards. Kingdom citizens are notable for their...
Which Commentary Set Should I Buy?
If you’ve never used BestCommentaries.com, you’re in for a treat. You can search for commentaries by book, by set, and by author. I find myself most often searching by book, because on the Romans page, for instance, all the commentaries will be ranked by an aggregate...
Another KJV Verse That Is Difficult to Understand
"I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily" (1 Cor 15:31). What does that mean? "I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ"? What? That doesn't make any sense to me, and I happen to speak very well English! Add it to the...
The Best Things Have Been Calumniated
I love Logos 4. Google eBooks may one day supersede it; I don’t think so, but who knows? But right now Logos 4 is the best think you can buy if you want to gather a serious software library of scholarly level Bible study materials. For what it’s worth, here are a few...
Ceslas Spicq on Luke 6:34
In the last few chapters of my dissertation I am planning on using Ceslas Spicq, a Catholic scholar of the 20th century, as somewhat of a whipping boy. No doubt he was much smarter than I and much more widely read (in both senses!), but there are some significant...