Morning Reading

What joy to serve in the office of the ministry where study is a part of one's calling! This morning after Matins and the reading from the BOC (into the Apology's critique of monasticism at the moment), got to read Luther's second homily on Trinity 9 in the House Postils and St. Cyril of Alexandria's homily on the same reading (Luke 16:1-9) in his Luke Commentary. Luther and Cyril very much track together on the gist of the parable, and St. Cyril warns against trying to find meaning in every detail of that parable, but instead to allow its point to sink in: "for it is impossible for love to the poor ever to remain unrewarded." Also spent some time reading more in Gerhard's *On the Nature of Theology and Scripture* (as Pr. Lehmann observed when he and Jenn surprised me with a visit yesterday, the most frustrating thing about that series is that the editors don't bother to find modern references for the fathers cited). In any case, Gerhard's *On the Judge of Controversies in the Church* is very well thought through.