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‘I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content’ (Phil.4:11).
Is this like the six supposed appearances to three young Portuguese shepherds of the Virgin Mary in 1917?
The women are afraid, then joyful; the guards are afraid, then corrupt.
Note the mixture of doctrine and practice. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: ‘I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine and the other half telling them that doctrine is not enough.’
Seneca: ‘No woman need blush to break up her marriage since the most distinguished ladies have adopted the practice of reckoning the year not by the names of the consuls but by the names of their husbands. They divorce in order to remarry. They remarry in order to divorce.’ …
Verse 6a is the key text; it is just one word in Greek: ‘He has risen’.
Athenaeus (A.D. 200) quoted Demosthenes (500 years beforehand): ‘We keep mistresses for pleasure, concubines for daily concubinage, but wives in order to produce children legitimately and to have a trustworthy guardian of our domestic property.’ 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 is outside marriage; 1 Corinthians 7:1-9 deals with sexual relations within …
Tony Abbott once described his Work Choices policy as ‘dead, buried, cremated.’ It was not one of his most elegant descriptions of anything, but he made his point. Matthew makes his point here too, as he tells of how Jesus was dead and buried. It is crucial for the …
The context seems to be a Greek downplaying of the body, and listening to some superficial slogans about freedom.
This portion of Scripture excluded Israel Folau from playing rugby for Australia and has been outlawed by the Victorian government since February 2021. Martin Luther: ‘The law reveals the disease; the gospel ministers the medicine.’ Samuel Bolton: ‘The law sends us to the Gospel, that we may be justified, …
