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The Hebrew exclamation *hoy* (הוי) — often translated "Ah" — expresses God's judicial anger, not mere regret.
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First, to take partial views of His glorious gospel.
The Lord Yahweh endured the unspeakable sorrows and agonies of crucifixion in perfect, marvelous silence—the scourging, the mockery, the nails, the darkness.
Yet Maclaren finds in this incompleteness not defeat but a divine principle.
God announces Himself the witness and judge of all mankind.
This is not labored knowledge but native breath—religion so integrated into His nature that He prays and speaks as naturally as breathing.
First, he framed obedience as *easy*—merely "say the word." Second, he presented *opportunity*: stones lay ready at hand.
First, some contend that Elohim created all things solely for His pleasure, without external motive.
Exell's Victorian commentary identifies three dynamics at work.
His brother said, "I go, sir," but went not.
Had Elohim never vouchsafed positive revelation to mankind, we should feel after virtue as one groping in darkness.
Men must comprehend when their main business is to apprehend.
The reason for this invitation rests in reconciliation: "that he may make peace with Me." God's offer reveals His unselfishness—He seeks not His own benefit but the sinner's restoration.
Their prejudice—the conviction that miracles *must* conform to established precedent—nearly blinded them to Elohim's work.
As the proverb reminds us, "The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind to powder." Sennacherib's parricides fled to Ararat in Central Armenia, where Armenian historians trace the Sassimian and Arzrunian tribes from them.
What we ought to do, we owe to do; what we ought to be, we owe to be.
Though no one remains perpetually sorrowful, every life contains seasons when the mind is sore and the heart bruised.
Instead, He borrowed a small ship from a fisherman and preached from that humble vessel.
The Biblical Illustrator identifies this legion as anger, malice, intemperance, murder, impurity, unfaithfulness, dishonesty, hypocrisy, ingratitude, disobedience, envy, covetousness, blasphemy, and atheism.
This doubled command demands a total mobilization of human capacity for worship.
This is no temporary statute, no passing ordinance that grows obsolete with the turning of years.
In his helplessness, he cast himself upon the Lord's hands, beseeching Adonai to deliver him from this destructive passion that marred his Christian witness.
Exell's nineteenth-century homilists grasped a truth worth recovering: God's promises operate on His timeline, not ours.
Christ performed this miracle only twice: feeding five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, and four thousand with seven loaves.