As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
By Jonathan Peters
Inspired by the Post-Reformation Digital Library, Caleb Cangelosi founded Log College Press (LCP) in 2017 while a student at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. The purpose of this organization has been to “collect and reprint the writings of and about American Presbyterians from the 18th and 19th centuries.” Thanks to places like Google Books and Internet Archive, Cangelosi and Andrew…
By Jonathan Moreno. From DBSJ 22 (2017): 75-90. Republished with permission. Read the series.
In an effort to present the greatest-glory defense with sharper clarity, this section will seek to address three objections that may be levied against it. Although this defense may encounter countless additional objections, the three selected seem to be the most pertinent to the discussion.
One accusation…
Scripture is clear—Proverbs in particular—that there are such things as fools and these individuals are nothing but trouble. We shouldn’t be in their company more than necessary—much less put important responsibilities in their hands.
Though the English word “fool” appears 60 to 65 times in most English versions of Proverbs, the book doesn’t offer a concise definition. That leaves us with some ambiguity. How many of the traits of fools does someone have to have to be rightly classified as a fool? Are we supposed to take the qualities of fools only as way to gauge the degree…
