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Yet the passage reveals profound truth about Elohim's character toward those who trust Him genuinely.
Mercy (*eleos*) differs fundamentally from goodness—it presupposes guilt.
This is not peculiar to Christianity—the ancient Greeks inscribed "Know thyself" on their noblest public buildings.
This original uprightness required five distinct faculties working in harmony: an understanding perfectly acquainted with God's law; a memory retaining all its precepts faithfully; a conscience applying it without compromise; a heart loving that law completely; and a will obedient...
When a friend visits, we do not merely exchange outward gifts; we desire the overflow of his life into our own.
Those who serve Elohim must continue their gleaning from morning through evening, not merely offering a morning of service before turning to pleasure.
The Greek word *ergastērion* (workshop) reveals where this transaction occurs—in the very matrix of falsehood itself.
First, constancy: they required no sound of his voice or echo of his steps to remember their duties toward him.
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.
The prophet presents three essential truths about obedience to Yahweh.
Yet if we saw truly, we should find many streams of refreshment, many sunny spots, and on all sides evidences of the Divine tenderness.
why tarry the wheels of his chariots?" This language of Sisera's mother—hopeful yet half-despairing—echoes through multitudes in the stern fight of existence and the moral campaign of consecrated life.
She had rhapsodized, calling for her beloved's return—yet when he came at an inconvenient hour, she could not rise from her bed to meet him.
Jesus becomes the Sun Himself, shining immediately upon all inhabitants.
When you restrain prayer before God, you act in opposition to your own conscience and confession of what is right.
Scripture tells us that until a priest with Urim and Thummim stands before God (Ezra 2:63, Nehemiah 7:65), this mystery cannot be fully resolved.
Locusts in ancient Near Eastern agriculture were catastrophic—entire harvests obliterated, years of labor reduced to desolation.
Keil and Delitzsch note that moths destroy garments (Isaiah 51:8; Psalm 39:12), while worms corrupt both wood and flesh—figures of insidious decay working without announcement.
Their judgment surpasses that of Sodom, for they rejected not ignorance but revealed truth.
In antiquity, no emblem better captured Christ's all-pervading presence than the sun—stationed in heaven yet communicating life ceaselessly to earth below.
Exell, in *The Biblical Illustrator* (1887), grounded this doctrine in Scripture itself—Jude 14, Job 19:26, Psalm 9:7–8, Daniel 7:9–10, Matthew 25:31–46, and Revelation 20:11–13 all testify to a Day of Judgment.
Yahweh pronounced ruin upon the Edomites for their cruelty toward Judah during the Babylonian captivity.
First, faith means taking God at His word about things unknown, unlikely, and untried—trusting your soul to His care, your sins to His cleansing, your life to His keeping.
The truths requiring cordial belief are these: all have sinned; I am a guilty sinner exposed to just punishment; Jesus Christ, having died for all, is Saviour to those who truly believe on Him.