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De Witt Talmage, D.D., identified this threefold promise—banished crutch, loosed tongue, and waters in the wilderness—as Yahweh's comprehensive restoration.
— Human conduct divides into two paths, each revealing the heart's orientation toward Elohim.
This command reveals four profound truths about God's sovereignty.
The darkness itself becomes His instrument of war.
The righteous possess true faith in Christ, consecrate their spirit to Elohim, live a heavenly life on earth, and have been renewed by the Holy Ghost.
The apostle synthesizes two classes of temperament: the men of fire, who soar heavenward in ecstatic rapture, and the men of calculation, who remain tethered to practical reason.
But what constitutes a true prophet worthy of reception?
First, the apostles felt the impulse of a new undertaking—the resurrection of their crucified Master demanded proclamation.
Christ Himself proclaimed freedom from sin (John 8:33–36), while Paul proclaimed freedom from the law—both ceremonial and moral.
Every generation has fashioned its own conception of perfection, and Christ has failed each one.
Holiness is not something bestowed upon Jehovah—it is eternally, originally, and unchangeably His own.
Many theologians of Exell's era debated whether justice or mercy should prevail in law, education, and doctrine.
Who was this soldier who offered relief to the dying Christ?
Exell identifies the wicked with precision: those who willfully violate God's precepts—drinkers, profane persons, those who dishonor the Sabbath, the dishonest.
First, good actions performed for wrong motives corrupt their value.
The Greek New Testament employs three distinct words for this ministry: *euangelizo* (to declare good tidings), *kerusso* (to announce as a herald), and *dialegomai* (to argue and persuade).
Not merely a designation, but a manifestation of the Eternal Deity itself.
Such prayer expresses profound need and longing desire after God Himself.
First, God's judgment is *correct*—according to the facts of the case, not assumption or hearsay.
God Himself ordains the family as His constitutive institution, granting parents rank immediately beneath His own throne.
Exell's Victorian commentary catalogues six species of this spiritual blindness with surgical precision.
First, it was a simple, child-like dependence on the naked *rhema* (spoken word) of God—not reasoned argument or sensory evidence.
First, Christ was compelled by His supreme sense of duty.
This Jerusalem "above" is **not** the earthly city of David's throne, but the eternal communion of believers bound by grace.