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To honour parents (*timao*, to show respect and value) comprises five essential elements: filial love, reverence and esteem, obedience and submission, succour and help, and the protection of their reputation through righteous conduct.
When a friend visits, we do not merely exchange outward gifts; we desire the overflow of his life into our own.
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 identifies the distinguishing mark of such hollow speech: the avoidance of Scripture's most penetrating term—*sin* (*hamartia*, missing the mark before God).
See here the woeful effects of refusing Elohim's free offers of grace.
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.
The prophet employs striking, elevated language to convey God's gracious thoughts toward His erring but repentant people.
The Church exists for the world's sake more than for its own comfort.
Exell, the Victorian biblical expositor, unpacks with precision: the greatest gifts carry corresponding sorrows.
This summons extends to bodily powers first: the tongue, "glory of our frame," must be tuned like David's harp of old.
Their repentance was fundamentally defective—a *nostos* (return) of behavior without a *epistrophe* (turning toward) Adonai.
The wicked man often works with great diligence and shrewdness—he is no idle profligate, but a calculating schemer.
God's promises to penitents rest upon three pillars of truth.
The body is a bad master, though it may be a good servant.
King Hezekiah had already stripped three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold from the royal treasury and Temple doors—a desperate ransom that bought only temporary relief.
The cedar of Mount Lebanon towers with extended branches offering shade.
Yet this encounter in Mark 5:21 reveals a paradox that Joseph S.
save me, O my God!"—expresses this dependence completely.
Paul applies this text to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, revealing depths beyond the original words about humanity.
The seer beholds earth spread open to heaven like a vast cornfield beneath hovering clouds—clouds heavy with *tsedaqah* (righteousness), Jehovah's faithfulness throughout this prophetic book.
When we pray this petition, we acknowledge five truths.
The prophet addresses Israel's subtle compromise—they may have claimed fidelity to Yahweh while crafting images to aid worship, reasoning that visible objects focused devotion like those of neighboring nations.
The Victorians, with Bible in hand, understood that Yahweh—who is "wise in counsel, benevolent in purpose, and almighty in power"—employs even the most destructive forces of nature as ministers of His will.
First, her frailty: Scripture compares the church to vulnerable creatures—a vine requiring constant support, a lily without defense, a dove without gall, sheep amid wolves.