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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
First, these afflictions possess antiquity—they reach back to youth itself, even to infancy and conception.
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On the evening of April 7, 1864, Louis Pasteur stood before a packed audience at the Sorbonne in Paris and held up a simple glass...
In the autumn of 1850, the United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, making it a federal crime to aid escaped slaves even in...
We hear denunciations of unfaithfulness and immediately agree; yet we fail to recognize ourselves in those very terms.
King Hezekiah's near-death experience reveals what many never discover: the difference between mere existence and genuine life.
The Preacher calls this the Epicurean gospel, named after the Greek philosopher Epicurus, though the impulse predates him as old as human nature itself.
The Apostle himself later questioned whether the Spirit had truly guided this defense.
In May of 1543, a dying Nicolaus Copernicus lay in his bed at the cathedral chapter house in Frombork, Poland. He had served as a...
The companion of Yahweh rejects the fruits of oppression.
Consider the remarkable arc of this one man's life: the persecutor became persecuted.
The prophet recalled how history, viewed completely from ancient predictions to their fulfillment, demonstrated Jehovah's absolute control of human affairs.
Elohim has endowed mankind with powers of variation and complexity unmatched in creation, yet this very richness becomes our peril.
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* (1887) distinguishes these opposing spirits: the proud man esteems himself better than others; the humble man esteems others better than himself.
Mark's Gospel reveals something crucial through a single Greek word: *kline* (bed), specifically a *grabatus*—the pallet or camp-bed of the poor, not the soft couch of the wealthy.
The reason is absolute: "For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee." Exell observes that men have rightly been infuriated by earthly deliverances.
Delitzsch observed that this promise extends not to Israel's senile decline, but to her yet-future history.
Contention—reasoned argument between parties willing to hear—remains legitimate and often dutiful.
It is well to have Isaiahs in society, for Hezekiahs could never keep it together.
Elohim the Holy Ghost, as a sanctifying Spirit, dwells within human beings who possess partial sin; were He to do otherwise, He could not inhabit mankind at all.
The psalmist exposes a particular sin endemic to human society: the deliberate destruction of others through calculated malice.
His prayer echoes the psalmist's cry: "Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me Thy law graciously" (Psalm 119:29).
First, Elohim has appointed that a portion of happiness accrues to the righteous in this present world, while the misery wages of sin fall yet more abundantly upon the wicked.
"And Hezekiah was glad of them." Yet this gladness masked a catastrophic error in judgment.
Solomon's image cuts sharply: when we bite down on what we believed was solid, we suffer.