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“the Father and the Son are One, not by confusion of Person, but by unity of nature.” -Ambrose

“Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?” Is. 2:22

the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it before the king. And when the king heard the words of the Law,  he tore his clothes.

“the old covenant ‘had no glory’ only in the sense that the new covenant now engulfs it, even ‘as the moon loses its brightness in the presence of the sun’”

“While the faith of God’s people across the historical covenantal administrations has been the same…in every generation, Gods people have believed in His messianic promises. But under each covenantal administration, that belief has acquired new, and necessary, precision.”

“Those who criticize covenant theology sometimes will say the covenant of grace is little more than Jesus keeping the covenant of works for His people…it actually is pretty true.” Pg. 12

Its coming is nothing less than the great divine break-through, the "rending of the heavens" (Isaiah 64:1) The kingdom of heaven is, therefore, absolutely transcendent in its origin, it is the revelation of God's glory (Matt. 16:27; 24:30; Mark 8:38; 13:26, etc.).

The kingdom of God is not a state or condition, not a society created and promoted by men (the doctrine of the "social gospel"'). It will not come through an immanent earthly evolution, nor through human moral action; it is not men who prepare it for God.

The idea of the coming of the kingdom is preeminently the idea of the kingly self-assertion of God, of His coming to the world in order to reveal His royal majesty, power and right. This absolutely theocentric idea of the kingdom of heaven should always be borne in mind.

A pneumatic allegorical exegesis served to harmonize it all with scripture, but actually, in this theology of Origen, the Christian religion was dissolved into ideas. It sought to make a deal between the church and the world, faith and science, theology and philosophy, a compromise between the foolishness of the cross and the wisdom of the world.

“The papacy is a Christian universal monarchy, erected on the popular spirit of Ancient Rome”

11and be ready for the third day. For on the third day  gthe LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. (Exod 19:11)