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Yet Christ's call came sovereignly, without miracle or earthly inducement—only the attraction of personal authority and divine grace.
The Son of God, represented throughout Proverbs as *Wisdom* (Chokmah), extends this invitation universally: Elohim shows no partiality of persons.
This breath infused intelligence in the brain and vitality in the heart, making man a moral being capable of virtue and responsible for his actions.
In Solomon's day, famines were frequent and trade communications uncertain between nations.
David understood what many Christians experience: the connection between bodily ailment and spiritual distress.
Though David knew reproach, Jesus Christ experienced mockery incomparably deeper—the common heritage of the godly tested by scorn.
First, Christ will return with inexpressible dignity and grandeur to vindicate the honour of the Divine administration, demonstrating the admirable wisdom and justice with which Yahweh has governed creation.
First comes the temporal: "Afterward, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh" (Joel 2:28).
Nearly eighteen centuries have passed since Demetrius laid down his pastoral labours and died, yet Christ has not yet returned to judgment.
The Jews of Haggai's time had fallen into spiritual lethargy, their slothful security masking a deeper neglect of covenant duty.
Not scientific philosophy occupied Paul's proclamation—only Christ's atoning death and certified resurrection.
First, God secures it for the accomplishment of His elect—those predestined to receive His truth.
One such truth concerns a child's early accountability.
The dispensation under which we live is emphatically that of night, in comparison with the dispensation to be introduced at the day of the Lord.
Isaiah embodied this truth through his children, whose names became living proclamations to Judah.
The body is a bad master, though it may be a good servant.
Yahweh pleads the justice and equity of His cause through three arguments: attestation of creation itself (Verse 1), appeal to Israel's own memory, and commemoration of manifold blessings bestowed upon them.
(Proverbs 3:4) What constitutes a truly religious life?
Exell's Victorian homiletic analysis illuminates two essential truths about spiritual sustenance.
Before we can be struck down, Elohim must be wounded and overpowered.
According to Josephus, nine temple gates were overlaid with silver and gold, but one gate of Corinthian brass "far excelled those of gold or silver." This magnificent entrance, also known as Nicanor's Gate or the Shushan Gate, featured bas-relief lily...
Across continents and centuries—from China's imperial annals recording the discovery of "bread-stones" during famine, to the West African coast where the yellowish earth called "caouac" sustains entire populations, to the banks of the Orinoco where Humboldt documented indigenous peoples kneading...
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.
Proverbs 4:7 declares wisdom the principal thing—not merely intellectual attainment, but the *summum bonum* (*chief good*) that elevates the human soul. Joseph S. Exell's 1887 exposition reveals wisdom's four-fold excellence. First, wisdom addresses man's spiritual state before Elohim. True happiness...