TRUTH, not eloquence, is to be sought in reading the Holy Scriptures; and every part must be read in the spirit in which it was written. For in the Scriptures we ought to seek profit rather than polished diction.
Jesus, Caesar’s Coin, and Christian Statecraft in Luke 20:20-26
Peter Paul Reuben: The Tribute Money Caesar’s coin. Also called a denarius. A single day’s wage for a peasant. Such coins were stamped with the image of Caesar along with the inscription “Tiberius Caesar, Augusts, son of divine Augustus.”[1] Jesus Christ used a simple Roman denarius as an object lesson on maintaining pure worship while … Continue reading Jesus, Caesar’s Coin, and Christian Statecraft in Luke 20:20-26
Miroslav Volf: God is Wrathful Because God is Love.
God isn’t wrathful in spirit of being love. God is wrathful because God is love
Athanasius: The Wisdom of God Handles the Universe Like A Lyre
For just as though some musician, having tuned a lyre, and by his art adjusted the high notes to the low, and the intermediate notes to the rest, were to produce a single tune as the result, so also the Wisdom of God, handling the Universe as a lyre, and adjusting things in the air to things on the earth, and things in the heaven to things in the air, and combining parts into wholes and moving them all by His beck and will, produces well and fittingly, as the result, the unity of the universe and of its order, Himself remaining unmoved with the Father while He moves all things by His organising action, as seems good for each to His own Father.
The Rightful King Has Arrived: Contrasting the Triumphal Entry and the Lamentation of Jerusalem in Luke 19:28-47
“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!”