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7.15.2007

Law and Gospel, Lamb of God, Kingdom

Speaking of Celtic... The central theme of the Bible of the Lamb of God is something a people like the Celts would have in the center of their thoughts and understanding of the Revelation of God and the Plan of God. That kind of language, concrete, metaphor. Regarding blood sacrifice too. On a more abstract, though no less real, level Law and Gospel is the deep running theme through the Oracles of God. Difficult to grasp both intellectually and experientially, but for the latter think General Law and the need to 'die to the law' as the Holy Spirit put it in the epistles of Paul. Law also as both pure and distorted/perverted (the difference between pre-fall and post-fall law in the human community).

Other than Lamb of God and Law and Gospel, the theme - reality - of the Kingdom of God is central. (And the Kingdom of Satan.)

The Covenants are deep language as well, but correspond to the Kingdom.

Three sources (off the top of my head):

Robert L. Reymond - The Lamb of God
Petrus Dathenus - The Pearl of Christian Comfort
Herman Witsius - Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man

Posted by c.t. at 04:44