Ronald V. Huggins

 I always smile when I hear someone say, "I don't care about the Bible, I just follow Jesus.  I'm a red-letter Christian."  I smile because of what Jesus himself says about Scripture. For him every word of Scripture is our very life.  He is continually quoting it as a final authority, referring to it, making arguments from it, and telling about how he himself fulfils it.  Indeed one cannot get very far in understanding what Jesus says unless we too are steeped in Scripture. So here are just a few examples of how Jesus talks about the Bible taken from Matthew's Gospel alone.   Matthew 4:4 -- Jesus quoting Deuteronomy 8:3.  If we live like Jesus every word of Scripture is our life. Matthew 5:17-18 -- Jesus affirms the Law and the Prophets.   Matthew 15:3-9 -- Jesus criticizes the Pharisees and teachers of the law for putting their traditions over Scripture -- Exodus 20:12 & Deuteronomy 5:16 / Exodus 20:12 & Deuteronomy 5:16 / Isaia...

Forty year ago, James Sire's book  Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible  provided me with my first lessons in hermeneutics and sound exegesis. The book shows not only how the cults misread Scripture, but how everyone does. Yesterday while working through the statement put forward by the leadership of John MacArthur's Grace Community Church (henceforth, the "MacArthur Statement") that provided their biblical rational for refusing to comply with Covid 19 restrictions, I was reminded once again of Sire's book, and spent a considerable time digging though my three-book-deep bookshelves, book bins, and book piles trying to unearth a copy. Finally I did. The reason I did is because the Church's statement provides several good examples of the kinds of misreadings Sire describes, including: Misreading 4: Ignoring the Immediate Context Misreading 10: Saying but not Citing Misreading 11: Selective Citing Misreading 12: Inadequate ...

Here is a site that has PL 71  in text form.  I do not know how many of the other volumes have been digitized, but this is amazing.  Richard John Neuhaus on  Bible Babble   Original 1609 Douay-Rheim's Bible , 2 , 3 This page is a mess, because I am in the process of compiling it.  But it is a treasure trove too Jerome's Helmuted Preface in English and Latin     Old Latin  Pierre Sabatier,  Bibliorum Sacrorum latinae versiones antiguae : seu, Vetus italica, et caeterae quaecunque in codicibus mss. & antiquorum libris reperiri potuerunt : quae cum Vulgata latina, & cum textu graeco comparantur ... Operâ & studio ... Vetus Latina : die Reste der altlateinischen All the voumes ,   Isaiah , 2    Sirach , 2 ,  Wisdom of Solomon , Esther ,   John ,   1 Corinthians ,  Ephesians    Ephesians/Colossians  , Epistles of Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews...