bookslover
Puritan Board Doctor
Reading John Calvin's first sermon from the Book of Genesis (on 1.1-2), he mentions the joke about which came first, the chicken or the egg? Apparently, that was already an old joke in the 1550s, which I did not know before.
I enjoy running across the occasional culture note in old sermons and such. They provide little windows on the times in which a particular sermon was preached or when a text was written. They, usually briefly, open up the world in which the speaker or writer lived.
I enjoy running across the occasional culture note in old sermons and such. They provide little windows on the times in which a particular sermon was preached or when a text was written. They, usually briefly, open up the world in which the speaker or writer lived.