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Exell identifies five particulars demanding our song: First, redemption's Author: "The Lord hath done it." Yahweh alone conceived and executed this work without counsel or co-laborer.
First, he is blessed domestically—in wife and children—a sight so rare and beautiful that the Psalmist calls all to witness it.
An ambassador of peace bears a threefold character: he is a minister sent of Elohim, instructed in the terms of peace, and commissioned to negotiate with sinners at war with the Almighty.
This proverb exposes the merchant who deprecates goods to negotiate a lower price, then brags of his shrewd bargain once the transaction concludes.
The Spirit speaking to the Church reveals three foundational truths: First, certain great moral elements alone determine the character of individuals or communities.
The crowds, seeing their bellies filled, wanted to make Him king—a prophet useful for material provision.
Just as Isaac's birth defied natural law—Sarah was barren, Abraham aged—so Christian conversion transcends fleshly effort.
Bishop Ryle offers a piercing parallel: the bankrupt cannot finance another's recovery; the imprisoned cannot liberate a fellow prisoner; the shipwrecked sailor cannot rescue his drowning comrade.
the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel.' Yet Maclaren cuts through their rhetoric with surgical precision: 'it had taken the elders seven and a half years to feel the force of these reasons, and probably their...
Matthew 24:27 compares our Lord's return to lightning flashing across the sky. Joseph S. Exell's Victorian exposition unpacks two essential truths. First, Christ's advent shall be sudden. The masses will be unprepared, as unsuspecting as a city when lightning leaps...
First, David's afflictions reveal that even the righteous face enemies and dangers.
The outward event communicates spiritual and religious truth through what he calls the 'semi-transparent' visible fact.
Rees preached last in North Wales, a friend said to him—one of those who are always reminding people that they are getting old—"You are whitening fast, Dr.
Yet the narrative turns without hesitation from that lonely sepulcher to the bustling camp and a new leader.
Yet our feelings regarding His appearing reveal the true condition of our hearts before Elohim.
The Victorians, with Bible in hand, understood that Yahweh—who is "wise in counsel, benevolent in purpose, and almighty in power"—employs even the most destructive forces of nature as ministers of His will.
He employs no qualifying phrases such as 'loving though righteous' or 'righteous yet loving'—language that suggests tension between these attributes.
Yet this encounter in Mark 5:21 reveals a paradox that Joseph S.
The psalmist chose God's testimonies—a choice subject indeed.
This summons extends to bodily powers first: the tongue, "glory of our frame," must be tuned like David's harp of old.
First, the Lord would return—not in spatial movement, for He fills heaven and earth, but in manifestation of favor.
Gilgal held three layers of sacred memory: the renewal of circumcision's covenant after Egypt, the first Passover celebrated in the promised land, and the appearance of the Captain of Yahweh's host to Joshua—divine assurance of deliverance itself.
Solomon observes from wide experience that extremes in appearance and reality create spiritual peril—we must strive to *be* what we *seem*.
The *goel*, or kinsman-avenger of blood, represented 'blood for blood'—the justice appropriate to Israel's stage of civilisation.