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Notes on Scripture

Redemption: The Purchase of a Postscript

Noting the persistence of God’s will in the nature of redemption

Our ways, which are reflective and cursory, contrast to the way that God declares his purposes in promises, and then binds himself to their fulfillment in action. Both their initiation and their performance proceed upon the unchanging character of God.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Exodus
- Exodus 1:1-14

Redemption: Renegotiating the Value of Creation

What Israel’s Exodus tells us about redemption

If Israel would be delivered from Egypt at all, it would be at God’s initiative. Israel’s new life, then, must wholly subsist in the kind and quality of life that God gave Israel through his intervention on Israel’s behalf and, after the fact, no other definition of life could exist for her.

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

Inspiration & Intelligibility

Language, revelation, and its religious misuse: Contrasting the character of biblical and Vedic speech

Revelation is by virtue of the Son and carried out by the Spirit, effecting understanding and a renewed relation between God and men. In scripture, language is made to serve God in a rational and benighted soul and make him a devoted soul. God’s words are given to us by the prophets, inscribed with a pen.

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