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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 Heavenly Physician addresses those who neglect His healing: those depending upon their own moral virtue, those trusting in religious duties alone, and those resting in correct doctrine without transformation.
Each was made according to His sovereign purpose, functioning as links between His eternal decrees and His redemptive acts—the voice of the decree becoming the herald of the act.
He began with doubt: "If Thou be the Son of God," targeting the very foundation of our Lord's identity and Sonship.
Yet Maclaren observes a deeper mercy in this barbarity: "Pitiable as the loss was, Samson was better blind than seeing.
One such truth concerns a child's early accountability.
Exell's Victorian instruction distinguishes three journals worthy of consideration.
The guilt of forsaking God rests upon a fundamental truth: man is bound by the law of his nature to obey the Almighty Being who made him an intelligent and immortal creature.
In Solomon's day, famines were frequent and trade communications uncertain between nations.
The real hindrance lies not in legality but in morality—in the human will itself.
"In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord." The righteous person refuses to pay respect where it is undeserved and withholds it nowhere it is merited.
First, adoption grants believers the *huiothesia* (legal status of sons), while regeneration grants the nature of children—we possess both through faith.
The apostle unfolds the principal phases of Christ's being and work.
As the sun sometimes shines in full strength and sometimes clouds over—yet remains the same fountain of light—so our Sun of Righteousness *emits* dual natures on the day of resurrection.
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...
The prophet employs striking, elevated language to convey God's gracious thoughts toward His erring but repentant people.
In antiquity, no emblem better captured Christ's all-pervading presence than the sun—stationed in heaven yet communicating life ceaselessly to earth below.
God's method of punishment is not arbitrary cruelty but divine permission—He lets us punish ourselves.
Joseph Exell's 1887 *Biblical Illustrator* frames this eschatological promise through three movements.
During inspection, workers discovered a live artillery shell wedged in a disused corner—a projectile that had remained concealed for over fourteen years.
The Holy Spirit Himself is the source of all spiritual fruit, and this fruit does not admit of exhaustive classification, though three groups emerge: Christian states of mind in their general aspect; qualities affecting intercourse with neighbours; and principles guiding...
First, he remembers the medicine—the Word of Elohim that he has treasured, now becoming his sustenance in affliction.
John stood as the epoch's great man—mighty in word, wondrously successful, embodiment of matured strength.
Exell identifies the distinguishing mark of such hollow speech: the avoidance of Scripture's most penetrating term—*sin* (*hamartia*, missing the mark before God).