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The body is a bad master, though it may be a good servant.
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 apostle deliberately substitutes "is known of Him" for "knows Him"—a rhetorical choice that elevates God's initiative above human capability.
They possessed no human sympathy for the sufferer whom hope deferred had made sick and hopeless.
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 they differ, it is commonly from ignorance and want of mutual explanation; and therefore when their understandings are informed, as their hearts were right before, they are like so many drops of water on a table—when they touch they...
The winepress figure denotes supreme contempt—the Mighty Conqueror compares His victory over enemies to the crushing of grapes beneath His feet.
Consider the excellence of the Holy Scriptures against earthly treasure.
Such a theory stands 'clean against facts.' A man does not persecute unto death those he secretly believes in.
The king received a narrow escape when Jeroboam's schism drove faithful priests and worshippers southward, strengthening his kingdom.
The original word *El* — meaning 'the Mighty One' — establishes God's supreme power and authority.
When we trace all things to their origin, we discover that mere critical terms prove unsatisfying; we yearn for something deeper.
The Word visited men before the Incarnation through nature and conscience, came fully at the Incarnation, and still comes through the Spirit who interprets His name (John 14:25; 16:13).
First, in *number*: Under the ancient dispensation, spiritual Israel remained comparatively few.
Eight ancient stone steps descend to waters that supplied Jerusalem's citizens for millennia.
Yet four men dared to dismantle one where Jesus taught, lowering their paralyzed neighbor through the opening on ropes while rabbis from all the schools gathered below.
The Hebrew rendering cuts deeper than arbitrary punishment: "He that despiseth the Word shall bring ruin on himself." This reveals a foundational law of Biblical revelation—that destruction is not merely God's external penalty imposed from above, but rather self-ruin, a...
First, it serves as a humbling remembrance—deepening his sense of guilt, illustrating Yahweh's greatness in mercy, and inspiring courage for future ministry.
Like the mythological Twins of Love, *eros* and *anteros*, Truth and Mercy weep together, smile together, sicken together, and recover jointly.
When Elohim displays His supremacy through knowledge—by announcing events before they occur—He addresses our judgment directly, without the bewilderment that miracles may produce.
This contrast illuminates how Elohim accommodates His truth to each person's capacity to receive it.
The world swarms with 'all unrighteousness and wickedness, lust and immorality, intemperance, cruelty, hatred; all manner of buzzing evils that stink and sting around us.' Yet our Lord 'passes them all by and points to a mere negative thing, to...
Joseph Exell's 1887 *Biblical Illustrator* frames this eschatological promise through three movements.
The Lord of hosts has purposed to stain the pride of all glory—exposing the fundamental corruption underlying human honor derived solely from men's approval.