St. Augustine on Christ in the Old Testament.
Translations
If Christ Is God, Why Does He Pray?
Augustine on Psalm 2:8.
When God’s Anger Isn’t Like Yours (or Mine)
St. Augustine on anger in Psalm 2.
Unanswered Prayers: A Difficult Lesson from Augustine (Updated)
Augustine on Psalm 22:2.
An Amazing Vignette from a Late Antique Church
What should a preacher do when the lector reads the wrong text?
“Those Words Are Pure Heavenly Thunder”: Luther on Attending to Every Word
Martin Luther, Galatians 1:4, and the importance of reading slowly.
“You Can Go Home Again”: The End of Confessions 4
Augustine on going home by finding our selves outside our selves in God inside ourselves.
“Uncanny King, Perplexing Priest”: An Epigram from the Greek Anthology
A poetic paraphrase of Greek Anthology 1.66, on Melchizedek and Jesus.
“The Catechesis of the Sign”: An Epigram from the Greek Anthology
A poem on reading Genesis 22 under the Spirit’s tutelage.
On Making Students Memorize Prose (Again)
I mentioned previously the benefits of making students memorize prose (in Greek) and wrote a little bit on the first passage we worked on. Here is the second passage we learned from Gregory of Nyssa's Ad Simplicium. The first dealt with the Son in the economy of...