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We come now to the final section of Niels Hemmingsen’s comments on Col. 2.16-17, which contains a disquisition on Christian festivals. The passage below contains the seventh of Hemmingsen’s regulae and some concluding observations. Text SEVENTH, the Emperor Constantine established the following rule concerning the Lord’s Day: those placed in the countryside should attend to the […]
Here is part 3 of our exposition of Hemmingsen’s comments on Col. 2.16-17, in which we look at rules (regulae) 4-6 that ought to govern Christian observance of festivals. Text FOURTH, the Jewish sabbath was a type and figure of Christians’ spiritual sabbath, which indeed ought to be perpetual, as Isaiah 66 teaches. This sabbath […]
We continue with our exposition of Hemmingsen’s exposition of Col. 2.16-17. In the previous post, we saw the ways in which Hemmingsen distinguishes between the old Mosaic order and the order that obtains after the coming of Christ. Christians do not observe “days” and “times” as was done before Christ’s Advent. And yet Christians still […]
When going through some old papers recently I had occasion to revisit the following, which was given as a brief talk at New St Andrews College last year in commemoration of Reformation Day. I haven’t done anything with it since, and had no plans to, and thought it might be useful to post it here. […]
While we are on the subject of Hemmingsen, his final summary in response in the Enchiridion theologicum (Classis III, caput III on the Apostles’ Creed) to the question Sed quid commodi nobis ex Chrsiti resurrectione accedit? (“But what advantage accrues to us from Christ’s resurrection?”) is a wonderful statement of the power and significance of the resurrection […]
In order to flesh out the effects of the Lord’s Passion in the Enchiridion theologicum, Niels Hemmingsen quotes an excerpt he attributes to Augustine. Et Augustinus: Per Redemptoris, nostri mortem de tenebris ad lucem, de morte ad vitam, de corruptione ad incorruptionem, de exilio ad patriam, de luctu ad gaudium, de terris ad coeleste regnum vocati sumus. […]
Wisdom and Worship in Two Parts John Calvin famously begins his Institutes of the Christian Religion with a programmatic statement about the interrelation of knowledge of God and knowledge of oneself, in a sort of sanctification of the injunction of the Delphic Oracle: Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and […]