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The Character of Virtue

The first part of a brief consideration of virtue in scripture
Put simply, Peter’s description in 2 Peter 1:3-8 makes for a traceable account of the Christian life. It helps us understand how faith remains an enduring feature of the Christian identity, just as it was prerequisite to the woman’s health in Luke 8:43-46. Faith is highlighted—not merely for the fact that faith is commanded to men, but for reason that only faith may take account of God’s ongoing work.
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Reading the Old Testament by the New (& the New by the Old)

The Christian reads as did the prophets, by the Spirit and in search of Jesus Christ
The Pentecost feast found its expected celebration in the usual sequence of Jewish festival days that became part of the Jewish calendar in connection with the Exodus. Pentecost was, accordingly, an annual Jewish festival; but this particular Pentecost found a unique situation and expression because it succeeded Jesus’ recent resurrection.
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves

“See the heinousness of sin by this, that Christ was made a curse…

…if thou wouldst know what sin is, go to mount Calvary.”

Thomas Goodwin
Christ our Mediator

“Holiness does not consist in mystical speculations, enthusiastic fervors, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.”

John Brown
Expository Discourses on 1 Peter

“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“Grace knows no jealousies except for the honor of God.”

Geerhardus Vos
Seeking and Saving the Lost
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Conceiving a Fiction

Paul asks his readers to imagine the circumstances were the Christian account actually mistaken
As others have remarked before, this is an extraordinary argument. Paul, in fact, asks his reader to conceive of the resurrection’s fact as if it were a fiction. This is an uncommon kind of argument, for it gives up the ground upon which so much rhetoric is finally made to depend—the strong, emotional sentiments that are sometimes made to stand in the absence (or refusal) of facts.
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