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The title "Lamb" applied to Christ appears nowhere else in Scripture save John's Gospel—this is no accident.
The gifts are not separate from grace; they are its direct offspring, its cognates.
What a remarkable paradox—poverty combined with power that accomplishes almost anything.
Exell observed that sleep's dominion is absolute—even the mightiest minds cannot resist it.
Joseph Exell observed in 1887 that Moses' law was geographically confined to Judea, while other systems adapted to local customs and remained regional.
The Apostle Paul identifies five essential components: man's utmost happiness (salvation itself), the means to attain it (the gospel), the grace required (believing), the faculty necessary (memory), and the relationship binding them together.
The Judaizers' insistence on circumcision and Jewish law constituted blasphemy against Christ's redemptive work, shocking Paul's reverence for the One they dishonoured.
The striking agreement between Paul's report and the eyewitness accounts of those present stands as evidence of Scripture's truth.
To pray is to *ask* (*aiteo*) of God; the more childlike the asking, the better.
Jesus appeared distant in the man's apprehension, yet he was far from God in four critical ways: in character—separated by the gulf between holiness and sin; in knowledge—aware of Jesus but ignorant of His love; in hope—the demons had extinguished...
Canon Liddon identified three marks of our Lord's words: the divine authority that speaks through them, their elevation above earthly discourse, and their awful depth that pierces the soul.
For that indeed a notable miracle hath been done ...
He bore the penalty of his transgression against the Lord at Kadesh, excluded from Canaan's rest.
Here stood a cup-bearer in the Persian court of Artaxerxes at Shushan, a man whose position required such intimate access to power that he could omit the king's name from his record—assuming every reader knew his magnitude.
The prohibition is not against reasonable foresight, but against anxious foreboding, that wretched state in which a man is 'rent asunder' by care.
The world's policy, like the world itself, fluctuates and deceives—uncertain in both objects and means, it knows nothing of the steadfastness that religious principle imparts to mind and conduct.
First, in Creation, Christ's operations display order, regularity, and perfect adaptation.
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* (1887), the sin of those rejecting the apostles encompassed five grave transgressions: infidelity, disobedience, ingratitude, inhospitality, and rebellion against God—defiance contrary to both natural law and divine grace.
The branches do not draw strength from soil or seasonal rains; they depend utterly upon the living sap flowing from the vine's root system.
When Socrates drank hemlock in Athens and Caesar fell upon the Roman senate floor, their deaths remained final.
Almighty God can and often does overrule evil actions toward His own glory and to cause bad means to conduce to a good end.
The circle stands as geometry's most perfect figure, and God selected it as His design for creation itself.
This ancient adversary possesses characteristics we must understand clearly.
Figuratively, it describes the literal Zion; spiritually, it sets forth the visible and mystical Church.