Foster's Theological Reflections

Hello Philip, I could produce more quotes, but let's start with these two sources for now. The first author is semi-longish, which is ...

Brown-Driver and Briggs: בְּנֵי האלהים applied to supernatural beings Genesis 6:2,4; Job 1:6; Job 2:1; בְּנֵי אלהים Job 38:7; בְּנֵי אֵלִים...

Some "oldtimers" like me in all likelihood remember articles that we used to have in the Watchtower about the distinction between ...

To my knowledge, disputes about genuine Bible books began to occur in the second century: the first-century assembly evidently did not have ...

Donald Bloesch ( Is the Bible Sexist? , pages 94-95) thinks that "later Judaism" manifested an increasingly coarse attitude toward...

Greek Text from NA28 (2 Corinthians 12:1-4): 1 Καυχᾶσθαι δεῖ, οὐ συμφέρον μέν, ἐλεύσομαι δὲ εἰς ὀπτασίας καὶ ἀποκαλύψεις κυρίου. 2 οἶδα ἄ...

See http://www.rasmusen.org/_religion/Denio.1927.JBL.On.the.Use.of.the.Word.htm

In view of 2 Tim. 4:20, it is quite likely that Erastus was a Christian. Although Rom. 16:23 does not provide detailed information about Era...

ἔκτισεν γὰρ εἰς τὸ εἶναι τὰ πάντα καὶ σωτήριοι αἱ γενέσεις τοῦ κόσμου καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐταῖς φάρμακον ὀλέθρου οὔτε ᾅδου βασίλειον ἐπὶ γῆς (...

Jean Danielou tellingly writes these words about Tertullian's doctrine of God and Christ: "The Son and the Spirit are distinguish...

Tertullian's understanding of Psalm 8:5 is "lower than the angels"--he views the psalm as a reference to spirit creatures and ...

"When the Jews returned from Babylon, their wives had become brown, and almost black, during the years of captivity, and a large number...

Did John Calvin believe that the Son and the Holy Spirit are eternally subordinate to the Father per their "divine" roles or func...

As many of you may know, Thomas Aquinas ("the Angelic Doctor") was a devout Medieval philosopher-theologian, who effected an infl...

Some people are convinced that Athanasius of Alexandria wrote the Athanasian Creed (the Quicunque Vult). There's just one problem with t...

Man should look upon the birth of a daughter as a blessing from the Lord.--Gen. Rabba 26. For seven days the Lord mourned (or deplored) th...

Isaiah 40:19 (LXX): μὴ εἰκόνα ἐποίησεν τέκτων ἢ χρυσοχόος χωνεύσας χρυσίον περιεχρύσωσεν αὐτόν ὁμοίωμα κατεσκεύασεν αὐτόν Brenton Transla...

The LXX has κύριος ἔκτισέν με (Prov. 8:22) and the Aramaic Targum reads: "God created me at the beginning of his creation, before his w...

Concerning Tertullian's fuller statement of God's existence prior to the generation of His Son, A. Harnack perspicuously notes tha...

But position, and condition, and places, and times, are not said to be in God properly, but metaphorically and through similitudes. For He i...