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Yet the passage reveals profound truth about Elohim's character toward those who trust Him genuinely.
The Victorian homiletics of Joseph Exell (1887) pressed a crucial distinction: godliness genuinely lengthens life, not through magic, but through obedience to Yahweh's wholesome laws.
When you restrain prayer before God, you act in opposition to your own conscience and confession of what is right.
Luke records with precision: "he leaping up stood." The healed man did not merely walk—he leaped, testing the strength of muscles that had never carried him.
Isaiah 25:11 presents a figure of Yahweh frustrating the drowning efforts of Moab in the dungpit—a scene that Professor S. B. Driver interprets as divine power subduing iniquity. The homiletic tradition that follows offers this vivid image: God as a...
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.
First, it serves as a humbling remembrance—deepening his sense of guilt, illustrating Yahweh's greatness in mercy, and inspiring courage for future ministry.
His custom reveals a pattern that all who would serve Adonai must learn: the rhythmic alternation between public labor and private prayer.
The winepress figure denotes supreme contempt—the Mighty Conqueror compares His victory over enemies to the crushing of grapes beneath His feet.
This transition reveals the foundation upon which every meaningful life must stand.
She petitioned the idol to protect her husband, then at sea in a storm.
The Biblical Illustrator (1887) expounds two crucial truths: First, God's greatness manifests in His constant governance of the world He made.
First, the physical: Yahweh fashioned our sensory organs, yet some men deny His authorship, attributing ear and eye to gradual evolutionary development.
Yet four men dared to dismantle one where Jesus taught, lowering their paralyzed neighbor through the opening on ropes while rabbis from all the schools gathered below.
During the Italian campaigns, five Austrian soldiers—cut off from retreat—rode into a French reserve encampment intending surrender.
The arch enemy—called by Scripture the old serpent, Satan, the roaring lion—commands tremendous power and malignity, marshaling principalities and powers under his dominion.
*Didymus* means "the twin," derived from his sibling relationship—whether brother or sister named Lysia, born simultaneously with Thomas.
Some approached without special interest, moved merely by custom.
First, in *number*: Under the ancient dispensation, spiritual Israel remained comparatively few.
The possessions of the world often lighten life's sorrows and increase its enjoyments; the Word of Yahweh itself recognizes prosperity as a subject for gratitude.
Christ unveils a graduated progression of spiritual maturity.
What is implied in being a branch in Christ?
The Word visited men before the Incarnation through nature and conscience, came fully at the Incarnation, and still comes through the Spirit who interprets His name (John 14:25; 16:13).
The Church exists for the world's sake more than for its own comfort.