Category Archives: NT

Who looks concerned for the poor?

In preparation for my exams in January, I was just walking around the room trying to memorise part of Matthew 26v9 in Greek: ἐδύνατο γὰρ τοῦτο πραθῆναι πολλοῦ καὶ δοθῆναι πτωχοῖς (for this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor). It strikes me as very interesting that Matthew would

The Law: death to those who live to it, life to those who die to it

Calvin, commenting on Galatians 2:19, refers briefly to Romans 7 saying: There Paul describes beautifully, that no man lives to the law, but he to whom the law is dead, that is, has lost all power and efficacy; for, as soon as the law begins to live in us, it inflicts a fatal wound by