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Yet Maclaren observes a deeper mercy in this barbarity: "Pitiable as the loss was, Samson was better blind than seeing.
First, the accomplishment itself: "salvation." Not partial deliverance, not merely an escape from consequences, but complete salvation—a word *yeshuah* meaning wholeness, safety, and triumph.
yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth" (Psalm 119:103).
According to Josephus, nine temple gates were overlaid with silver and gold, but one gate of Corinthian brass "far excelled those of gold or silver." This magnificent entrance, also known as Nicanor's Gate or the Shushan Gate, featured bas-relief lily...
First, he remembers the medicine—the Word of Elohim that he has treasured, now becoming his sustenance in affliction.
*Didymus* means "the twin," derived from his sibling relationship—whether brother or sister named Lysia, born simultaneously with Thomas.
Isaiah 25:11 presents a figure of Yahweh frustrating the drowning efforts of Moab in the dungpit—a scene that Professor S. B. Driver interprets as divine power subduing iniquity. The homiletic tradition that follows offers this vivid image: God as a...
The possessions of the world often lighten life's sorrows and increase its enjoyments; the Word of Yahweh itself recognizes prosperity as a subject for gratitude.
God's plan encompasses society comprehensively—threading millennia from earth's earliest dust to the emergence of new heavens and earth.
How can Christ command what must spring spontaneously from the heart?
God's method of punishment is not arbitrary cruelty but divine permission—He lets us punish ourselves.
Exell, the Victorian homiletic scholar, identified two essential truths within this summons.
When friends multiply, when abundance flows, when earthly helpers stand ready—that very moment we face our gravest spiritual peril.
The Jews, having exhausted rational debate with Jesus, abandoned discourse for violence.
Isaiah embodied this truth through his children, whose names became living proclamations to Judah.
First, to take partial views of His glorious gospel.
Maclaren captures this with penetrating imagery: "God, as it ere, lays His right hand on Cornelius, and His left on Peter, and impels them towards each other." The magnitude of this transformation cannot be overstated.
This declaration yields us a threefold warrant for Christmas observance.
Spurgeon reminds us that even in eternity, when the Son reclined in the Father's blessed bosom, His delights were with the sons of men.
First, he framed obedience as *easy*—merely "say the word." Second, he presented *opportunity*: stones lay ready at hand.
Christ teaches that "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"—Matthew 6:34—grounding our freedom from anxiety in three essential truths.
Spurgeon, drawing from Henry Kollock's insight, urges us to imitate this practice: do not yield to formless grief, but cite your soul to account.
The Biblical Illustrator identifies this legion as anger, malice, intemperance, murder, impurity, unfaithfulness, dishonesty, hypocrisy, ingratitude, disobedience, envy, covetousness, blasphemy, and atheism.
He possessed dominion over all terrestrial creatures and stood in a state of perfect communion with his Maker.