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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The Victorians understood this principle with particular clarity: the boy who disparages his home affections in pursuit of worldly manhood betrays the very source of true manliness.
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The Apostle Paul speaks of a fundamental constraint upon human perception.
Perseverance is the badge of the saint—marked in Scripture, confirmed by analogy, and vindicated by common sense.
The pattern repeats throughout Scripture: Saul bribed assassins to hunt David (1 Samuel 22:6–19); the Jewish leaders later bribed Judas to betray the Son of David into their hands.
The *hierarchs* (ἱεράρχης, those holding highest spiritual rank), distinguished from secular magistrates as recorded in 1 Chronicles 24:6, faced humiliation beyond mere political defeat.
Consider how a false witness operates in a criminal trial.
An Intellectual Contrast: The intelligent man communicates wisdom; when he speaks, men are enlightened, their minds set to thinking, their spirits refreshed.
Peter's gaze was no casual glance—it was a reciprocal examination.
Under Tiberius, as in the Victorian era, three religious postures competed.
Selfish in nature, he wears the costume of benevolence; false in speech, he uses the language of sincerity and truth.
It was "the tillage of the poor"—the careful, diligent husbandry of the man with only a small patch of land—that filled the storehouses of the Holy Land.
The original audience resisted Elohim on two grounds: first, because He permitted His people's captivity in a distant land under oppression; second, because liberation seemed impossible, even beyond God's power to effect.
Solomon presents three essential movements in receiving Divine principles.
Wisdom denotes theoretical knowledge of truth—distinguishing real from apparent truths through understanding their causes and properties.
Yet the relation of the righteous and the wicked to trouble differs strikingly.
We must not hate others because they hate us (Matthew 5:44), nor curse them for their curses (2 Samuel 16:10).
Observe the paradox: error displays surprising zeal, while truth often appears passive.
Isaiah 10:14 records the Assyrian conqueror's arrogant declaration: "My hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people." This metaphor exposes the depth of human depravity when power corrupts the soul. The imagery is deliberately contemptuous. A child...
The scene required protection from popular commotion that would have hindered the gradual development of the Redeemer's ministry and its attendant evidences.
This counsel operates on two levels: first, that our hearts reject the flattering speech of the unfaithful, and second, that we become vessels of good doctrine to benefit others.
He writes, "It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth." The apostle appeals not to legal requirement but to honour, conscience, and brotherly feeling—which ought to bind the Christian conscience more...
The seer of Patmos reveals a startling truth: every human heart has constituted itself a throne of judgment over others.
"It is not good to eat much honey," Solomon warns.
The prophet declares, "I will restore thy judges as at the first," revealing two critical truths about national renewal.