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He names it twice in his opening movement (verses 1 and 4), and again when addressing the Corinthians themselves (verses 6-7).
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.
Lyth, D.D., structures this comparison across three critical dimensions.
In A Quiet Place, the Abbott family survives alien invasion by living in absolute silence. Any sound draws lethal creatures. They communicate in sign language, walk barefoot, eat without silverware. Survival requires stillness. The Lord was not in the wind,...
His words carry three essential truths for the believer.
The margin reads, "Set your heart to her bulwarks." This is no passing glance or negligent inspection; it demands wholehearted attention and deliberate investigation.
Figuratively, it describes the literal Zion; spiritually, it sets forth the visible and mystical Church.
Yet Maclaren observes that this solitude, rather than paralyzing the Apostle, clarified his method.
Among all creation, this insignificant globe was singled out as the stage for redemption.
"The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick." In this world, ruined by sin, the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint.
This is no arbitrary decree, but a solemn declaration to which all holy spirits give their willing assent—an ordinance whose justice even the excluded themselves shall admit.
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.
This ancient custom illuminates Psalm 24:8—"Who is this King of glory?
By virtue of Christ's death and resurrection, Christians obtain the grace of a new life.
To pray is to *ask* (*aiteo*) of God; the more childlike the asking, the better.
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.
Ye are of more value.—The worth of human nature flows from four sources, according to Dr. H. W. Williams: First, from the capacities inherent in that nature itself. Second, from the fact that mankind is the object of special regard...
He bore the penalty of his transgression against the Lord at Kadesh, excluded from Canaan's rest.
What a remarkable paradox—poverty combined with power that accomplishes almost anything.
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 promise "My God shall supply all your need" (Philippians 4:19) stretches across Old Testament pledges: "They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing" and "No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly." Yet...
Yet Luke captures something more profound than fearlessness: John's perfect humility before Christ.
He does not stand above his audience as one who possesses the message of salvation and dispenses it downward.
The prohibition is not against reasonable foresight, but against anxious foreboding, that wretched state in which a man is 'rent asunder' by care.