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On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday sat in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London, wrapping copper wire around opposite sides of an...
This creature of supreme power teaches four vital lessons, as expounded by R.
The wisest person must contemplate two humbling truths: his knowledge against what remains unknown, and his knowledge against what he ought to have learned.
We are shaped irrevocably by our mothers in that far-off time of childhood—we become what our homes made us.
This rule is no external constraint imposed upon the believer; rather, it emerges from the new creature itself, the regenerate inner man transformed by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:17).
They have beaten me and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. (Proverbs 20:35) Joseph S. Exell's 1887 illustration draws a striking parallel between surgical anaesthesia and moral corruption. Just as modern medicine...
The Jews could boast of their national lineage.
First, by way of excellency: wisdom itself surpasses the fairest woman in the world in beauty and worth.
The prophet diagnoses a spiritual pathology rooted in poor leadership.
Delitzsch observed that holiness means separation from worldly corruption, superior in character.
*Dal* means "wavering, tottering, infirm"—those whose foundations crumble.
When a wild, offensive tree grows in a garden and the gardener cuts its top, if it sends forth sprouts as bad as before, he digs up the root itself.
This is no superficial cleanliness but a composition free from wrong admixture.
Exell's Victorian commentary examines this through the lens of labour justice, tracing how Elohim transformed Adam's punishment into humanity's greatest dignity.
The word carries an evil connotation—recalling the serpent's cunning in Genesis 3—yet here Solomon redeems it to mean discernment rather than deception.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom.—Piety a peculiar ornament to the aged. I. Who may properly be called old people? Old and young are relative terms admitting different significations. Children always think their parents are old. Those who...
Some suppose we must love our neighbour with the same *selfish* affection we naturally direct toward ourselves, yet such self-love is sinful and cannot be our model.
Melancthon mourned in his day the divisions among Protestants, and sought to bring them together by the parable of wolves and dogs.
The essentials of a righteous man's character remain constant across all ages.
The rich man perverse in his ways lacks this wisdom entirely.
The Baptist rebuked Herod without provoking his anger, which reveals he spoke with gravity, temperance, sincerity, and genuine goodwill toward the king.
The Husbandman planted a choice vine on a fruitful hill, fenced it carefully, built a watchtower, and hewn a winepress—yet it brought forth wild grapes (*beushim*, worthless fruit) instead of the expected harvest of righteousness.
Exell (1887) offers this Victorian meditation: We are not to expect permanence in our acquisitions.
Consider first the dissolution of the human frame—that wonderful machine bearing the mark of Divine wisdom and skill.