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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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Notes on Scripture

- Galatians
- Galatians 5:1

Mood, Medium, & Message

The character of revelation informs the content of the sermon

Paul first makes his readers to understand the facts upon which their faith depends, for faith must understand the works of God before it gives answer to the will of God.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Romans

History & Mystery

Paul’s letter to the Romans connects past & present

The public resurrection of Jesus Christ is the sufficient cause for a public proclamation of the gospel, and also its universal confession—what Paul calls the obedience of faith. Or we might state this in its reverse: faith in Jesus Christ is universally commanded because the gospel is the proclamation of a public fact—his resurrection.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Galatians
- Galatians 4:1-11

Paul Corrects Confusion & Error in the Churches of Galatia

Noting the Positive Principle & Power that Confirms God's Promise

In its misperceived, perverted form, the promise could not be good news to all people, for it was enjoined to commands that had been given to some people. Once the universal scope and offer of the gospel was hidden by this heresy, Paul was swift and courageous to correct the error.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Galatians
- Galatians 4:19-31

Communicating Truth by Memory & Metaphor

Preliminary remarks on literary devices & Galatians 4

The more frequently and deeply people converse with one another, the richer language becomes. Ironically, this richness and complexity of language also leads to the comprehensibility of ideas. Comprehensibility, then, is surprisingly made subject to a kind of complexity.

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