On the Prophetic Office of Christ

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Order of Contents

Articles  8+
Believers as Prophets  1
Latin  3

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Articles

See also, ‘On Christ’s Offices of Prophet, Priest & King’.

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1500’s

Beza, Theodore – Ch. 7, 5. The Papists do not acknowledge Jesus Christ to be the perfect declarer of the will of God, neither the Holy Scriptures to be a sufficient doctrine of salvation  in A Brief & Pithy Sum of the Christian Faith made in Form of a Confession  (London, 1562)

Viret, Pierre – A Christian Instruction…  (d. 1571; London: Veale, 1573), A Familiar Exposition of the Principal Points of the Catechism, and of the Christian Doctrine, made in Form of Dialogue, 9th Dialogue: Of the Offices of Jesus Christ

Of the Office of a Prophet of Jesus Christ, and of the perfection of his doctrine
Of the Power and efficacy of the ministry of Jesus Christ, and of that which He gives to the ministry of others
Of the Office to Teach

Olevian, Caspar – An Exposition of the Apostle’s Creed  (London, 1581), pt. 2

Why also was He anointed to be a prophet?  122
Of the fruit of Christ’s prophetical office  123
How far forth those things which are spoken concerning the office of Christ, or of the priestly and prophetical kingdom of Christ, agree with the doctrine of the free covenant  123
How far forth those things which are spoken concerning the office of Christ, or of the priestly and prophetical kingdom of Christ, agree with the doctrine of the free covenant  123

Olevian (1536–1587) was a significant German reformed theologian, and has been said to be a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism along with Zacharias Ursinus (though this has been questioned).

Ursinus, Zachary – 2. What is Christ’s Prophetical Function  in The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered…  in his Lectures upon the Catechism…  tr. Henrie Parrie  (d. 1583; Oxford, 1587)

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1600’s

Bucanus, William – pp. 24-27  of 2. ‘Of Christ’  in Institutions of Christian Religion...  (London: Snowdon, 1606)

What is his Prophetic office?  24
Show some testimonies  24

Turretin, Francis – Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr.  (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 2, 14th Topic

6. ‘Was Christ caught up into heaven before beginning his public ministry in order to be taught there by the Father?  We deny against the Socinians.’  395

7. ‘In what does the prophetic office of Christ consist; or what are its parts and what is its mode?’  397

van Mastricht, Peter – ch. 6, ‘The Mediator as a Prophet’  in Theoretical Practical Theology  (2nd ed. 1698; RHB), vol. 4, pt. 1, bk. 5, pp. 181-203

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1700’s

à Brakel, Wilhelmus – ch. 19, ‘Concerning The Three Offices of Christ, & Particularly His Prophetic Office’  in The Christian’s Reasonable Service, vols. 1  ed. Joel Beeke, trans. Bartel Elshout  Buy  (1700; RHB, 1992/1999), pp. 517-39

a Brakel (1635-1711) was a contemporary of Voet and Witsius and a major representative of the Dutch Further Reformation.

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1900’s

Berkhof, Louis – ‘The Prophetic Office’  (1950)  7 paragraphs, in Systematic Theology

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On the Prophetic Office of Believers

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1500’s

Ursinus, Zachary – The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered…  in his Lectures upon the Catechism…  tr. Henrie Parrie  (d. 1583; Oxford, 1587), Of the Communion of the Faithful, or Christians, with Christ

2. What is the prophetical function of Christians, that is, in what sense they are, and are called ‘Prophets’

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Latin Article

1600’s

Voet, Gisbert – 2. Of the Prophetic Office  in Syllabus of Theological Problems  (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 2   Abbr.

Hoornbeek, Johannes – ch. 9, ‘Of Christ’  in Theological Institutes, Harmonized from the Best Authors  (Leiden, 1658), pp. 270-339

15. For the prophetic office Christ teaches the Church the true religious salvation: Ames, Maccovius  307
16. However, other new or more perfect precepts have not been added to the moral law: Synopsis  309

Alting, Henry – A New Problematic Theology, or a System of Theological Problems  (Amsterdam, 1662), Locus 12, ‘Of the Person & Office of Christ’

28. ‘Whether Christ indeed was a prophet, priest and king in the earth?’ [Yes]  600

29. ‘Whether Christ as prophet is even able to be called a Legislator?’  601

30. ‘Whether Christ discharged the prophetic office in the eath? or rather He may even exercise that from heaven?’  602

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Related Pages

The Offices of Christ

On the Kingly Office of Christ as Mediator