Previous article in this series: March 2025, p. 202 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the...
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Previous article in this series: October 1, 2025, p. 10 Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will see thee as a gazingstock. And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?— Nahum 3:5-7 Nahum 3:5-7...
Continued from Special Issue (October 15, 2025) INTRODUCTION William Tyndale’s work of translating the New Testament and parts of the Old Testament into English was foundational to all future work of making the Bible available to English readers. It is estimated that as much as ninety percent of the Bible as translated by Tyndale is part of the King James or Authorized Version, and that one-third of the King James text is word-for-word Tyndale. His translation had the same enormous impact on the English language as Luther’s translation had on the German language. Tyndale’s first concern, however, was making the...
INTRODUCTION The assigned topic for these articles was “William Tyndale’s Doctrine of Scripture,” but Tyndale did not have any systematic doctrine of Scripture. Hints of a doctrine can be found in his writings, but so far was he from having a systematic and developed doctrine that words such as inspired and infallible, so important in a well-developed doctrine of Scripture, are not found in his writings. Different reasons can be found for this lack of a developed doctrine of Scripture. Outstanding is Tyndale’s interest in putting the Scriptures into the hands of the common folk. That was more urgent to...
Previous article in this series: July 2025, p. 366. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; the noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the...
minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches, and member of Covenant of Grace PR Fellowship in Spokane, Washington Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion. walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid? The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin—Nahum 2:11-12 In Nahum 2:11, 12 the lions are the Ninevites; the old lion, the king of Nineveh;1 the lionesses, his queens; the young...
minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches, and member of Covenant of Grace PR Fellowship in Spokane, Washington Previous article in this series: February 2025, p. 180. NAHUM 2:3-10 The first part of Nahum 2 is a vivid eyewitness account of Nineveh’s destruction by the Babylonians and Medes given some thirty years before the actual event, but sovereignly appointed and arranged by God. In verse 1 Nahum sees the King of Babylon coming at the head of his armies, described by Nahum as the one who will scatter Nineveh as Nineveh scattered other nations. He calls the Ninevites to defend...
minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches, and member of Covenant of Grace PR Fellowship in Spokane, Washington Previous article in this series: December 2024, p. 109. He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches—Nahum 2:1-2 Nahum 2:1 is an announcement of the coming of the Babylonian and Median armies and a call to arms...
minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches, and member of Covenant of Grace PR Fellowship in Spokane, Washington Previous article in this series: October 2024, p. 10. Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off—Nahum 1:15 We have seen that the messenger of whom Nahum speaks is the prophet himself and all who follow in his footsteps as preachers of the gospel. Romans 10:13- 15 shows this and shows...
minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches, and member of Covenant of Grace PR Fellowship in Spokane, Washington HISTORY In Om Recht en Waarheid (For the Sake of Justice and Truth), an early publication of the Reformed Free Publishing Association (Dalm Printing Co., Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1924: 55 pp.), Herman Hoeksema and Henry Danhof not only laid out the history of the common grace controversy in the Christian Reformed Church (CRC), but expressed their intention to begin publication of a magazine in which the truths of God’s Word would be defended and expounded. This intention became a reality in October 1924, when the...
