Several months ago I posted on the Old Princeton theologian A.A. Hodge's views on "civil government as an instrument in the promotion of redemption" in his Commentary on the Confession of Faith, where...
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(Part 1; Part 2; Part 3) Today's installment is much briefer than the last. We continue on with the Doctrina section of Stephanus Fabricius' twelfth Discourse on Psalm 148. In the previous post, we observed...
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At long last, the next installment of Stephanus Fabricius' comments on Psalm 148:11-12, from his twelfth discourse on that Psalm (part 1; part 2). If it is granted that magistrates have a duty to render...
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In today's post we move on to the doctrina portion of Fabricius' twelfth discourse on Psalm 148. Here, after reprising the universal duty of singing laudes Dei, the praises of God, he begins to expound...
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17 Mar 2014
Posted by E.J. HutchinsonAt the end of City of God 4.28, Augustine makes an eminently sensible remark on the relation, or at least potential relation, between the worship of the true God and civic happiness. In this section...
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Our next installment, this time on 148:12 in addition to 148:11, comes from Stephanus Fabricius (1569-1648), a pastor in Bern. Actually, our next several installments will come from him, because his comments...
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We continue on with our series of Reformed exposition of Psalm 148:11, "Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth,” with Martin Bucer's comments from his Sacrorum Psalmorum...
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Today's commentary on Psalm 148:11 comes from Victorinus Strigel (1524-69). PRDL lists him as Lutheran-Reformed, presumably at least in part because he was my favorite kind of Lutheran, which is to say,...
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We continue with our catena of Reformed commentary on Psalm 148:11-12 (so far, Calvin and Musculus), and we are perhaps starting to see something of a consensus emerge. Those we have looked at so far interpret...
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A week or so ago I put up a brief post about Calvin's comments on Psalm 148:11, "Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth," and why he singles out kings, princes, and judges...
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