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Delitzsch observed that holiness means separation from worldly corruption, superior in character.
Consider how a false witness operates in a criminal trial.
Delilah exemplifies this rottenness through calculated treachery masked as love.
Thomson, D.D., witnessed in nineteenth-century Sidon diggers consumed by frenzy at the discovery of a single coin.
Alexander observes, this sin must be abjured both for its destructive effects and as the worst form of pride.
Wisdom denotes theoretical knowledge of truth—distinguishing real from apparent truths through understanding their causes and properties.
The genuinely wise person possesses three defining characteristics: he pursues rational ends with deliberate purpose; he recognizes that true wisdom and moral goodness are inseparable; and he submits his pursuits to Divine direction rather than personal preference.
When Joshua's leadership (30 years), Samuel's judgeship (30 years), and Saul's reign (40 years, Acts 13:21) are subtracted from the broader 240–260 year span between Israel's entrance into Canaan and David's coronation, this interval remains.
Yet this humble labouring man, armed only with an ox-goad, slew them all.
Exell's Victorian commentary examines this through the lens of labour justice, tracing how Elohim transformed Adam's punishment into humanity's greatest dignity.
We hear denunciations of unfaithfulness and immediately agree; yet we fail to recognize ourselves in those very terms.
When a wild, offensive tree grows in a garden and the gardener cuts its top, if it sends forth sprouts as bad as before, he digs up the root itself.
The wicked person is utterly corrupted: speech corrupt, habits corrupt, heart corrupt, influence corrupt.
As William Thomson notes in *The Land and the Book*, the true force of this comparison emerges only after the harvest concludes and the keeper abandons the lodge.
Under Tiberius, as in the Victorian era, three religious postures competed.
This is no superficial cleanliness but a composition free from wrong admixture.
King Hezekiah's near-death experience reveals what many never discover: the difference between mere existence and genuine life.
The Greek word *kapeleuo* (to peddle or retail for profit) originally described tavern keepers who adulterated wine—blending inferior stock, falsifying measures, deceiving customers for gain.
Exell's 1887 exposition clarifies what this metaphor demands of Christian ministers.
The wicked man must become hypocritical in proportion to his sin, for sin demands cunning concealment.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom.—Piety a peculiar ornament to the aged. I. Who may properly be called old people? Old and young are relative terms admitting different significations. Children always think their parents are old. Those who...
Such an errand would contradict God's character—He cannot morally compel His messenger toward wickedness.
Consider the remarkable arc of this one man's life: the persecutor became persecuted.
The Old Testament tabernacles, though elaborate and divinely ordained, were temporal structures taken down and rebuilt.