2024 BIY

started 2024-06-06-Thu, Schuyler Quentel ESV with Apocrypha
Reading Plan

Notes

  • 2024-06-06-Thu-Gn-02 etc: "till" the ground (RSV2CE) is better than "work" the ground (ESV)
  • 2024-06-06-Thu-Gn-04: "east of Eden", like East of Eden
  • 2024-06-08-Sat-Gn-14: didn’t realize Abram was a great commander
  • 2024-06-08-Sat-Gn-14, 5: "Your servant" is like the mass line "your servant/my soul"
  • 2024-06-08-Sat-Gn-18: Abraham addressing God while interceding for Sodom and Gomorrah illustrates the humility we should have before God when we pray: "I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes."
  • 2024-06-08-Sat-Gn-19: What feels rough to us may in fact be God's mercy, as when God saves Lot from the men of Sodom: "So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him."
  • ==another "your servant" in Gn-19 (Lot speaking to God)==
  • ==2024-06-08-Sat on prayer: ==
    • Jonah and God changing his mind after they repent
    • In the furnace and God can save us if he wants
  • 2024-06-08-Sat-Jb-01: Job rose early and offered sacrifices for his children in case they have sinned, how should we do this for our kids? (Parenting)
  • 2024-06-09-Sun-Jb-19-27: "I know that my redeemer lives....!"
  • 2024-06-11-Tue-Jb-38: God answering Job: "Dress for action like a man."
  • 2024-06-12-Wed-Ex-06 is the first of many "I will take you for my people, and I will be your God"
  • 2024-06-13-Thu-Lv-07 "the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the LORD's peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people" foreshadows 1 Cor-11 profaning the Eucharist
  • 2024-06-14-Fri-Lv-11 is the first "be holy, for I am holy"
  • 2024-06-14-Fri-Ex-20 says "And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you wield your tool upon it you profane it." ==Why does hewing a stone profane it, and how do we reconcile this with a theology of work?==
  • 2024-06-15-Sat-Lv-20-5 forbidding offering your children to Moloch echoes when we think about Abortion
  • 2024-06-17-Mon-Dt-02 ==has the killing even of children at the hands of Israel? This is awful: how does God allow this?==
  • 2024-06-17-Mon-Dt-03: “it is the Lord your God who fights for you”
  • 2024-06-18-Tue-Dt-08-3: "And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD."
  • 2024-06-18-Tue-Dt-08: "Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you."
  • 2024-06-19-Wed-Dt-09: "Know therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people." (we don't deserve what we have)
  • 2024-06-20-Thu-Nm-18: "I give your priesthood as a gift."
  • 2024-06-21-Fri-Nm-23: Balaam says that God doesn't change his mind
  • 2024-06-21-Fri-Dt-22 against cross-dressing
  • 2024-06-22-Sat-Dt-28: "The Lord will open to you his good treasury the heavens", which is like Ps-135 "from his treasuries he sends forth the wind" (also Jer-51 "he brings forth the wind from his storehouses" 2024-08-07-Wed)
  • 2024-06-22-Sat-Dt-30: "But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it."
  • 2024-06-22-Sat-Dt-30-20: "I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live"
  • 2024-06-23-Sun-Jos-01: "This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night"
  • 2024-06-27-Thu: How to make sense of Judges 19? Bishop Barron identifies this as "the low point of human behavior described in the Bible" and an illustration of our behavior without God (The Great Story of Israel, 159)
  • 2024-06-29-Sat- memorize Jn-10: "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly."
  • 2024-06-30-Sun-1 Sm-12: "Only fear the Lord, and serve him faithfully with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you."
  • 2024-07-01-Mon: Pacemont leasing thinking about 1 Jn-03: "But if any one has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?"
  • 2024-07-04-Thu-1 Chr-28: "observe and seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God"
  • 2024-07-07-Sun-Eccl-04: "a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?"" (this is the plight of modern man obsessed with work rather than family)
  • 2024-07-09-Tue-Mk-10: ==Jesus says they James and John will drink his cup, but only James drinks the cup of martyrdom?==
  • 2024-07-10-Wed: Lv-19 cited in Mk-12 (love your neighbor)
  • 2024-06-29-Sat-Jn-17 gives one way to think about heaven: eternal life is to know God, because he is eternal
  • 2024-07-13-Sat-Hos-04: "A people without understanding shall come to ruin."
  • 2024-07-13-Sat-Hos-06: "For I desire steadfast love [mercy] and not sacrifice."
  • 2024-07-14-Sun-Hos-13: "O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting?" (quoted in 1 Cor-15)
  • 2024-07-15-Mon-Am-05: "He who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time."
  • 2024-07-15-Mon-Am-05: "Seek good, and not evil, that you may live."
  • 2024-07-15-Mon-Am-08-12: "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord God, "when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.
  • 2024-07-16-Tue-Mi-06: "He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness,a and to walk humbly with your God?"
  • 2024-07-17-Wed-Tb-04: "Do not turn your face d away from any poor man, and the face of God will not be turned away from you."
  • 2024-07-18-Thu-Tb-12 promotes the efficacy of works (similar to James)
  • 2024-07-18-Thu-Jl-02: "Yet even now," says the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning
  • 2024-07-22-Mon-Is-40: "The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand for ever."
  • 2024-07-24-Wed-Is-55 re heaven for Henry's questions: "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
  • 2024-07-23-Tue-Jos-02-5: Rahab lies to protect the Jewish spies—does this condone the classic moral example of lying to Nazis to protect hidden jews?
    • Thomas addresses this in ST IIa-IIae, Q. 110, A. 3, Obj. 4: "It is not lawful to tell a lie in order t odeliver another from any danger whatever. Nevertheless it is lawful to hide the truth prudently, by keeping it back, as Augustine says (Contra Mend. x)." Also note that his sed contra quotes Sirach (Sir-07!
  • 2024-07-31-Wed-Jer-06: "every one is greedy for unjust gain"
  • 2024-08-03-Sat-Jer-30: re Transgender: "Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child?"
  • 2024-08-04-Sun-Dn-11: "the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action"
  • 2024-08-05-Mon-Jer-44: "Queen of Heaven"
  • 2024-08-11-Sun-Esther 13:19: "Save me from my fear!"
  • 2024-08-13-Tue-Sir-04: "Fight even to death for the truth and the Lord God will fight for you."
  • 2024-08-14-Wed-Sir-11: "Do not find fault before you investigate; first consider, and then reprove." (don't be too quick to find fault)
  • 2024-08-14-Wed-Sir-11: "Do not bring every person into your home"
  • 2024-08-14-Wed-Sir-18 on being thrifty: "Do not revel in great luxury, lest you become impoverished by its expense."
  • 2024-08-14-Wed-Sir-20: "A wise man will be silent until the right moment"
  • 2024-08-14-Wed-Sir-21: "Flee from sin as from a snake, for if you approach sin, it will bite you."
  • 2024-08-15-Thu-Prv-03: "Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the first fruits of all your produce"
  • 2024-08-15-Thu-Sir-25: ha!
  • 2024-08-15-Thu-Sir-27-6 for Logic
  • 2024-08-18-Sun-2 Mc-06: would rather die rather than not keep the sabbath
  • 2024-08-18-Sun-2 Mc-06: "To punish the ungodly quickly rather than leave them alone for very long is a sign of great kindness."
  • 2024-08-18-Sun-Wis-11: natural consequences: "one is punished by the very things by which he sins"
  • 2024-08-18-Sun-Wis-14: "Blessed is the wood by which righteousness comes."
  • 2024-08-18-Sun-Prv-18: "Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys."
  • 2024-08-18-Sun-Prv-19: "Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense."
  • 2024-08-18-Sun-Prv-19: "Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand."
  • 2024-08-25-Sun-Rom-02: God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance
  • 2024-08-28-Wed-Rom-06: =="we are to judge angels"?==
  • 2024-09-12-Thu-Heb-02 "we must pay the closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it" motivates reading the Bible continually

Themes

  • The sanctity of marriage comes through in all the passages where Abram and then Isaac try to pass off their wives as their sister and the people they do this to are appalled because of the great sin it would have brought upon them.
  • Power of prayer
  • Paul and works:
    • 2024-08-25-Sun-Rom-02: "He will render to each one according to his works"
    • 2024-08-25-Sun-Rom-02: "For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified."
  • Questions
    • How to explain the old ages in the OT?

Created: 2024-06-06-Thu
Updated: 2024-09-18-Wed