Through flame and flood, with plague and blood The gospel is proclaimed The Spirit flows, the church it grows The beast he is enraged Measuring rod and line outstretched The Father knows his own As martyrs die the saints will sigh And they cry out, How long? And then at last, the trumpet blast And …
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Typology and Political Discourse
People notice patterns. We interpret the world in light of archetypes, repetitions, and symbols. The biblical authors made massive use of typological interpretation as they interpreted earlier Scripture, redemptive history, and the events they were either narrating (in the Gospels, for instance) or addressing (in the letters, for example). Have you noticed how often this …
Against Wind and Tide: Derek Kidner’s Preface to His Book on Jeremiah
In the preface to The Message of Jeremiah: Against Wind and Tide in the series of books edited by Stott and Motyer called The Bible Speaks Today, Derek Kidner writes, “. . . a preface also gives me room to put the subtitle, ‘Against wind and tide’, into its context. It comes, of course, from …
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