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This term carries profound weight—not mere completion, but restoration to an earlier and better state.
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Note three truths: First, Elohim hath already given the very greatest thing to set before salvation: what every parent who had but one beloved son would surely feel as the greatest of his treasures.
John Locke defined it as "the uneasiness which a man feels within him on the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries delight with it." Our desires reveal our destiny.
We require this petition when surrounded by gloom, when tempted, and when our path grows rough.
If we would pray well, we must pray early.
The Greek word *ergastērion* (workshop) reveals where this transaction occurs—in the very matrix of falsehood itself.
This command reveals four profound truths about God's sovereignty.
The Book of Proverbs unites secular and spiritual wisdom without artificial division, revealing that godly living encompasses all dimensions of existence.
This command demands reading with utmost attention, diligence, and devotion—weeping as John did until the sealed book was opened, digging deep in the mine of Scripture for the mind of God, and holding it fast lest it slip away.
And when thou prayest—nine things pertain to the knowledge of true prayer: I. To know what prayer is. II. How many sorts of prayer there be. III. The necessity of prayer. Four things provoke us to pray: 1. God's commandment....
The hand lifts itself to violence, as Cain's did against Abel, or grasps what belongs to others, as Achan seized forbidden spoils.
First, good actions performed for wrong motives corrupt their value.
We are led not as brute beasts driven against our nature, but as reasonable creatures whose wills remain intact yet transformed by grace.
Similarly, the sacred temple shook at God's presence and the seraphim's praise.
Night is the season of repose, yet also the time chosen for deeds of darkness and sin.
When they differ, it is commonly from ignorance and want of mutual explanation; and therefore when their understandings are informed, as their hearts were right before, they are like so many drops of water on a table—when they touch they...
The prophet does not merely inform; he interrogates, drawing forth dormant faith that has withered through neglect or fear.
Yet the passage reveals profound truth about Elohim's character toward those who trust Him genuinely.
The Greek New Testament employs three distinct words for this ministry: *euangelizo* (to declare good tidings), *kerusso* (to announce as a herald), and *dialegomai* (to argue and persuade).
Exell's Victorian commentary catalogues six species of this spiritual blindness with surgical precision.
They possessed no human sympathy for the sufferer whom hope deferred had made sick and hopeless.
The Biblical Illustrator (1887) expounds two crucial truths: First, God's greatness manifests in His constant governance of the world He made.
Proverbs 10:24 unveils two destinies: "The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; but the desire of the righteous shall be granted." Who are the wicked?
First, consider the importance of public worship as it respects God Himself.