An unfortunate thing about being Protestant is that we keep ourselves at arm’s length from the ecclesiastical calendar. “It’s too Catholic,” I hear. Of course, there are liturgical Protestants who do celebrate Epiphany, but the wide strain of Evangelicalism in […]
The first principle of interpreting Scripture is, in fact, not the literal principle of interpretation, but another which comes before it. The first principle of interpreting Scripture is to know that God has truths which cannot be known and […]
In the last section of Lesson 11 we worked through the reality of belovedness. In our text, Isaiah 5:1, we see it mentioned in triplet between the prophet and his God, Yahweh. We want to see this as more than […]
The Hebrew word “beloved” is repeated 3 times at the beginning of Isaiah’s vineyard ballad. The triple iteration pairs nicely with the trisagion in the prophet’s Temple vision in the next chapter – “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of […]
