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The Paschal moon flooded the landscape nightly with splendor as pilgrims from across Palestine and beyond arrived in Jerusalem in family groups and bands, filling the city to overflowing.
For He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet.—The reign of Christ establishes this world as His battlefield now; when this conflict ends, His reign concludes also. "He shall reign till," and no longer. Who are...
Growing old, Paul refuses further interference in his calling, appealing to the Master whom he serves and by whom alone he shall be judged.
God announces Himself the witness and judge of all mankind.
Exell's Victorian homiletical analysis reveals three cardinal parallels between the Jewish Passover and the Lord's Supper.
When comfort abandons us and earthly props crumble, the soul rises on wings of intercession toward Yahweh.
Israel possessed intellectual knowledge—their scribes could recite the Law—yet this knowledge never reached the heart.
Joseph Exell's 1887 *Biblical Illustrator* frames this eschatological promise through three movements.
There is a time for the divine decree to be issued against a nation; a time when, though Noah, Job, and Daniel should stand before Him, yet He will not be entreated; though they cry early, cry aloud, cry with...
The Greek *ochlos* (ὄχλος), meaning "great multitude," designates not merely a numerical crowd but those without wealth, power, exalted rank, or intellectual refinement.
When Abram fled Ur of the Chaldees, renouncing idolatry in a pagan land, westward distance became his sanctuary.
Its rarity made it precious; it formed an essential ingredient in incense throughout the ancient world.
Rather than dismiss these prayers as expressions of unholy personal malice, Exell proposes a principle: examine what Yahweh Himself declares about such utterances.
This teaching rests upon nature's own law—that no creature exists in isolation, but all things experience mutual action and reaction within Elohim's creation.
When the prophet confronted Israel's transgressions, they protested their innocence, citing their diligent worship attendance.
Even such magnificent power proves utterly futile for deliverance.
He possessed dominion over all terrestrial creatures and stood in a state of perfect communion with his Maker.
The distinction between "lively" and "living" reveals Scripture's nature: where *lively* denotes mere animation, *living* (*zōē*) signifies life as an operative principle—comprehensive, generative, self-perpetuating.
The gospel of Jesus Christ inaugurates what all Scripture converges toward and radiates from.
Capernaum, meaning "field of repentance" or "city of comfort," sat on the western shore of the Galilean Lake, a prosperous junction where the Damascus-to-Accho highway brought commerce and wealth.
The apostle deliberately substitutes "is known of Him" for "knows Him"—a rhetorical choice that elevates God's initiative above human capability.
Jeremiah Burroughs, the Puritan divine, illuminated this distinction with precision.
First, some contend that Elohim created all things solely for His pleasure, without external motive.
First, he directly contradicts Christ's express words that all disciples would fall away.