From Reformation to Reformation

Have you ever considered learning Hebrew? Learning a foreign language does not require genius, but it does require steady and consistent effort. So, why expend the effort? If you are considering learning Hebrew, it is good to consider your motivations for such an effort, and to fix those motivations in your mind and heart to fuel your effort! Dr. Dilday's Lecture: "Hebrew: Why? and How?

[We could use your help: If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way.   Click here to watch a brief video on the project. ] Enemies and Persecutions XXXVI.  The first enemies of nascent Christianity were the Jews ; their twofold persecution is narrated in Acts.  The first, excited by the Sanhedrin, devoured Stephen . [1]   The second, a few years later, had Herod Agrippa  as its author, in 44 AD, the fourt

Heresies   XXIX.  In those first beginnings of the Christian Church, that various seeds of heresies had already sprung up, is evident even from the Apostolic writings, in which are found diverse names of those that had fallen from the truth and faith.  To Hymenæus  and Philetus , with whom is also joined Alexander , is imputed the denial of the resurrection of the dead . [1]   But, whether by this dogma they were following in the steps of the Sadducees (for we readily admit t

[ If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way.   Click here to watch a brief video on the project. ] The Form of the Apostolic Church   XI.  In becoming acquainted with the Form of the Apostolic Church, it is proper to attend first to its propagation , then to its qualities  and customs , and finally to its government , worship , and discipline . XII.  The Church was first planted and gathered at Jerusalem ,

[ If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way.   Click here to watch a brief video on the project. ] I.  On the tenth day after the ascension of Christ, which fell upon the feast of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was poured out upon His Apostles and disciples, with a visible sign, and thus completely renewed the Face of the Church of God on earth.  With Prophecy going before, we distinguish its eras, so that we

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Verse 13:[1] And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God… [And the...

Verse 12:[1] (Rev. 8:13) One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. [One woe has passed] Not with respect to...

Verse 11:[1] (Eph. 2:2) And they had a king over them, which is (Rev. 9:1) the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew...

HOLY FATHERS: Augustine, Epiphanius, Eusebius, Jerome, Nicephorus. REFORMED: Cooke, Hoornbeeck, Hottinger, Rivet. LUTHERAN: Gerhard,...

Verse 9:[1] And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was (Joel 2:5-7) as the sound of...

The Apocryphal Books of the New Testament are of three sorts. For, formerly were attributed: I. To Christ, 1. Books to Peter and to...

20. All these and other Apocryphal New Testament Books the Holy Fathers of old distinguished from the true Canonical New Testament Books...

19. Also, a book called The Shepherd, formerly attributed to Hermas, a disciple of Saint Paul, and variously commended by the Holy...

18. Finally, the Apocalypses of Peter and of Paul. Also, finally, to the Divine Apocalypse of Saint John some spurious Apocalypses, or...

17. Epistles, of Saint Paul to the Laodiceans and Seneca, of Barnabas, of Clement to the Corinthians, of Lentulus concerning Christ. Not...

16. The Acts of Peter, of Paul, of Andrew, of John, and of Thomas. To which are also referred the περίοδοι or circuits of the Apostles,...

15. But also in the place of the Canonical Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypse were put by the ancients Apocryphal Gospels, Acts,...

14. And Baronius’ σοφὸν φάρμακον is examined. Since not a few indications of more recent origin are found in the Liturgies hitherto...

13. And to Mark, the νοθεία/illegitimacy of which is added. The Liturgy of Saint Mark is no more genuine, which, edited by Cardinal...