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Love is no sentimental weakness; it is the ardent, sagacious, far-sighted virtue that Scripture commends.
He beheld in the firmament the glory of Elohim and heard around and beneath him a chorus of praise to the Most High.
This creature of supreme power teaches four vital lessons, as expounded by R.
The wisest person must contemplate two humbling truths: his knowledge against what remains unknown, and his knowledge against what he ought to have learned.
First, by way of excellency: wisdom itself surpasses the fairest woman in the world in beauty and worth.
I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?" The prophet indicts a specific vice: descendants trafficking in their ancestors' glory while possessing none themselves.
This rule is no external constraint imposed upon the believer; rather, it emerges from the new creature itself, the regenerate inner man transformed by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:17).
When a warrior marches forth in his own strength, saying "My right arm and my mighty sword shall secure victory," defeat approaches.
The seeds of alteration are everywhere sown, yet by strange deception, each man believes himself exempt from this universal law.
Exell's 1887 analysis reveals pride's devastating universality: it spares neither age nor circumstance, neither the healthy nor the diseased, neither public nor private life.
They have beaten me and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. (Proverbs 20:35) Joseph S. Exell's 1887 illustration draws a striking parallel between surgical anaesthesia and moral corruption. Just as modern medicine...
Scholars suggest an eye affliction made writing painful for the apostle, yet he seized the pen himself.
The prophet diagnoses a spiritual pathology rooted in poor leadership.
Tow—the coarse, broken refuse of flax or hemp—becomes the metaphor for those whom sin has hollowed from within.
Elohim ordained that man should labour—not as punishment, but as partnership with the Divine Husbandman in cultivating the field of life.
The Israelites faced temptation: the fruit of fields, the fascination of byways, the sparkling water of wells.
Barnes and William Ellery Channing, articulates the multifaceted obligations each demands.
"Pictures of silver" refers to the creamy-white flowers that frame the golden harvest.
First, consider who bestows it: Yahweh Himself, the Giver of all good gifts.
Solomon speaks of one "often reproved" yet stubbornly hardening his neck—the ancient metaphor for a beast refusing the yoke of obedience.
This contradicts the hollow modern notion of "the rest of faith" as mere inaction.
Yet something is required to lift the cover, to unveil reality, to expose the things we do and the persons we truly are.
The Preacher calls this the Epicurean gospel, named after the Greek philosopher Epicurus, though the impulse predates him as old as human nature itself.
The Prophet compares Israel's transgression to a high wall that begins with a small rent, or breach, in its lower section—a structural weakness that seems manageable at first.