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The psalmist writes of one who 'shall surely come'—a repetition using both infinitive and finite tense (*halok yelechu*, going they shall go) to hammer home divine certainty.
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He had crushed Ahab's dynasty with the speed and severity of lightning, gaining the support of Jehonadab the Rechabite, clearly a Yahweh worshipper.
The wealthy preserved winter ice and snow in cisterns to cool summer beverages.
This poetical vision describes not mere longevity, but a transformation of human capacity itself.
The seer of Patmos drew this imagery from his island circumstances, much as Peter's rooftop vision at Joppa arose from hunger and his lodging with a tanner.
On March 9, 1841, seventy-three-year-old John Quincy Adams rose before the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. The former president, long retired from the...
On November 24, 1859, John Murray published Charles Darwin's *On the Origin of Species* in London, and the entire first printing of 1,250 copies was...
We must distinguish between the purpose for which property is sought and the moral purpose answered by the process itself.
The oozing stream from a bursting reservoir becomes a torrent; the torrent becomes a deluge.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom.—Piety a peculiar ornament to the aged. I. Who may properly be called old people? Old and young are relative terms admitting different significations. Children always think their parents are old. Those who...
Naomi's question to Ruth—"Where hast thou gleaned to-day?"—invites us into three vital truths about our stewardship before Yahweh. First, the *sphere* of life's opportunities. Labour is the law of life itself. The Lord has "set before thee an open door"...
When your interest, your feelings, your wants, nay, even your future independence are on one side, and the plain dictates of duty and religion on the other, then it is that you must "be very courageous" and not turn aside...
Under Kings Manasseh and Amon, Judah descended into flagrant idolatry.
This detail reveals that Elohim directs every dispensation of suffering with absolute governance.
First, as a universal community: only religion—a sense of justice and moral distinction—separates humans from beasts.
Paul's instruction that women wear a covering "because of the angels" (1 Corinthians 11:10) reveals his characteristic method: he never rests in mere rules, but anchors conduct in *arche* (first principles) applicable across all circumstances.
The godly person cannot ethically pursue only individual welfare while the church of God languishes.
The Hebrew word for "abide" (*yalun*) literally means "to lodge" or "to spend the night." Thus the ancient scholars read the verse with piercing irony: Adam, placed in honor within Paradise itself, did not remain even one night.
First, by way of excellency: wisdom itself surpasses the fairest woman in the world in beauty and worth.
Man alone among creatures possesses articulate speech—the power to transmit thought from mind to mind.
In the skies above Nazi-occupied Europe, the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group — known as the Red Tails for the distinctive crimson paint on...
Psalm 5:6 pronounces the Divine judgment: "Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing"—those who traffic in falsehoods, whether spoken carelessly or with malicious intent. The distinction matters little to Yahweh's justice. A lie uttered in jest remains a lie; the...
On a cold night in 1929, Edwin Hubble sat in the observer's chair of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, perched above Pasadena,...
First, the lost traveler in an endless desert—surrounded by bleaching bones of former victims, the monotonous swells of sand-heaps stretching to the horizon, no landmarks, no guides.