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Dr. Hutchinson’s recent post on Augustine reminded me about a point of Calvin’s eschatology that I wanted to explore. Agreeing with Augustine, Calvin argues that there will come a time when Christ’s mediation will come to an end, and the godman will deliver the kingdom over to the Trinity (considered properly; its deity as such). […]
Over the past few years I’ve posted Latin Advent and Christmas hymns with English translation and some comments. This year we’re going to look at Ambrose’s hymn Intende, qui regis Israel. Parts of this hymn are familiar in English as “Savior of the Nations, Come,” which my family has recently been learning along with some (other) […]
Many people are at least passingly familiar with the late fourth century/early fifth century Christian Latin poet Prudentius because of John Mason Neale and Henry Baker’s translation of nine verses from Cathemerinon 9, the Hymnus omnis horae (“Hymn for Every Hour”), titled “Of the Father’s Love Begotten.” (Kevin DeYoung recently wrote about it here.) The Cathemerinon (“Daily Round”) is a […]
Augustine, commenting on 1 Tim. 1.15, gives what he believes is the cause of Christ’s Incarnation. Just as we saw in the cases of B.B. Warfield and Irenaeus, here too the cause is human sin; that is, the Incarnation is soteriologically motivated. Text and Translation 1. 1. Quod lectum est modo de sancto Evangelio, hoc […]
I’m going to follow up here quickly on a post over at Reformation21 on Warfield and the Incarnation. Warfield notes that, even if the redeemed are able to trace out indications or foretellings of the Incarnation in the created order, that is only because the world God made is the one that would fall and […]
Last year around this time I posted translations of some medieval Latin Advent hymns. So, in that spirit, here is another, which continues the practice of reminding its singers of both the First and Second Coming. The imagery of light is prominent throughout the poem, from the first line to the last stanza (“I, Jesus, have sent […]
In a section full of interesting observations, Augustine has this to say about the life-giving principle of Christ: The Principle is neither the flesh nor the human soul in Christ but the Word by which all things were made. The flesh, therefore, does not by its own virtue purify, but by virtue of the Word […]
Ok, this is some serious nerdery, but I translated the famous hymn “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” into Latin for…well, for fun, I guess; and also because it might provide some material for classical and Christian school teachers to use with their students before Christmas–either to read; or to play around with as a template in […]
Last year around this time I started a short series on the Latin hymn (comprising a series of antiphons) Veni, Veni Emmanuel, but didn’t get around to finishing it, so I intend to do that this year. We had gotten through v. 5 previously (which you can find here, along with links to the other four). […]
Niels Hemmingsen (yes, him again) thought so–particularly from God’s words in Genesis 3. At the beginning of the chapter of his Enchiridion Theologicum called Promissio Reparationis, sive Evangelium (“The Promise of Restoration, or the Gospel”) he discusses the teaching he believes to be present in Genesis 3:15, which, he says, is the first place in which […]