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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Exell's 1887 analysis reveals pride's devastating universality: it spares neither age nor circumstance, neither the healthy nor the diseased, neither public nor private life.
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The wise man offers five devastating consequences of adultery: it impoverishes men, threatens death, debauches the conscience with guilt, ruins reputation with perpetual infamy, and exposes the adulterer to the jealous husband's rage.
Scholars suggest an eye affliction made writing painful for the apostle, yet he seized the pen himself.
They diverted streams and springs outside the walls, redirected water away from besiegers, and constructed a moat between the city's inner and outer fortifications—filling it with water from the old pool.
Poverty strikes those whose circumstances lie beyond their control—infirmity, disease, social oppression, misfortune—often accompanied by virtue and piety.
This political maxim assigns to human morality the determinative power over public prosperity or ruin.
This contradicts the hollow modern notion of "the rest of faith" as mere inaction.
The Wise Teacher presents three critical warnings about approaching places of moral danger.
The wicked man must become hypocritical in proportion to his sin, for sin demands cunning concealment.
Exell's Victorian exposition illuminates this distinction through precise categories.
Consider a wealthy man of vigorous health who dwells in a handsome house and adds yearly to his estates, yet his soul is corrupt.
Every season of life carries distinct duties and temptations.
Paul's in Rome stands Monte Testaccio, an artificial mound nearly one-third of a mile in circumference and one hundred fifty feet high.
They proclaim that the city lies open and accessible to all quarters equally.
The seeds of alteration are everywhere sown, yet by strange deception, each man believes himself exempt from this universal law.
The Nile valley, bringing rich alluvial deposits from Abyssinia's mountains during annual floods, sustained both agriculture and commerce.
Yet something is required to lift the cover, to unveil reality, to expose the things we do and the persons we truly are.
This scientific curiosity illuminates the proverb's moral force: corruption can masquerade as brilliance.
Actions are judged solely by present utility, not by righteousness.
First, *enlightenment*—the soul without knowledge cannot flourish; true understanding must be informed by the science of duty and knowledge of Elohim.
He stands at the dim verge of existence, a beacon light to all who live without Elohim.
Pages blur meaninglessly until midway through, when suddenly one beam of light breaks through.
Jacob's blessing gave pre-eminence to Judah and Joseph's son Ephraim, yet structural inequality festered.
This principle governs controversies in cabinets, families, and nations across all ages.