Archive for December, 2008
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 19)
Monday, December 29th, 2008The ride to Lebben-Or was altogether delightful. Although Mishael had been longing to see the Beautiful City, he had also been dreading the day of his arrival, and of his reacquaintance with the company, because of all the troubles he had caused them through his foolish choices. He felt ashamed and embarrassed, and as ardently [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 18)
Monday, December 22nd, 2008All that night, Mishael kept the Eye of the Eagle, which is what men call the northernmost star in the sky, around which all the constellations revolve, on his right hand; and with so sure a guide joyfully sparkling in the unclouded heavens, and the words of Ariel burning in his heart, he continued to [...]
Images of the Savior (48 — Conclusion)
Friday, December 19th, 2008Do not think that I will condemn you before the Father: there is one who condemns you, Moses, in whom you have hope. For if you believed Moses, then you would have believed me, for he wrote about me; but if you do not believe his letters, how shall you believe my words? – John [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 17)
Monday, December 15th, 2008The beautiful Queen Isabella scrutinized Mishael for some seconds, and then, with an approving air that seemed warm with the most intimate familiarity, and at the same time distant and unobtainable in its royal magnificence, she addressed him: “I have chosen you on the belief that you may be one in whom the consummate splendor of [...]
Images of the Savior (47 — The Final Song and Blessing of Moses)
Thursday, December 11th, 2008Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the Shield of your help and the Sword of your splendor? Your enemies shall come cringing unto you, and you shall tread upon their high places. – Deuteronomy 33:29 We have now come to the conclusion of Deuteronomy, and with it, the [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 16)
Monday, December 8th, 2008It was mid-day when the slave drivers came for Mishael and the other prisoners in the holding cells (about a dozen in all); and they soon had them all driven out of the little brick building and loaded into a covered wagon, barred on all sides, and drawn by two huge and rather filthy draft [...]
Images of the Savior (46 — The Second Confirmation of the Covenant)
Friday, December 5th, 2008For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too hard for you, and it is not far off: it is not in heaven, that one should say, “Who will go up for us into heaven, and receive it for us, that we may hear it and do it?”; and it is not [...]
Book Review: Lord and Servant, by Michael S. Horton
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Synopsis: In Lord and Servant, Michael Horton has argued, meticulously and adroitly, that a truly biblical christology cannot be got at except through the lens of a strictly biblical covenant theology. What it is to be God cannot finally be arrived at through the metaphysical and ontological categories of the philosophers, for God will ultimately [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 15)
Monday, December 1st, 2008Although it was fully dark when Mishael entered the opulent city of Lusk, the broad street that the magnificent gate opened up upon was brightly lighted, and there were lights in most of the windows of the tall buildings lining either side of the street, so that he could see the city’s legendary beauty almost [...]