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80 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
This verse captures the great change and its obligations.
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In Palestine, the Passover coincided with harvest's first fruits—*aparche*—ready for Temple presentation.
This distinguishes His Church from every other society—without Christ present, there is no Church.
He uses a striking geographical image: 'The springs lie close together up in the hills, the rivers may be parted by half a continent.' What begins as unity at the source becomes division at the mouth.
To eat and drink unworthily means partaking of the sacramental bread and wine contrary to Christ's institution, not discerning the Lord's body in the ordinance.
The striking agreement between Paul's report and the eyewitness accounts of those present stands as evidence of Scripture's truth.
At the base of those ancient fortifications lie five or six courses of massive, squared blocks, 'the wonders of the world yet; well jointed, well laid, well cemented.' These represent gold, silver, and precious stones—the solid verities of Christ proclaimed...
Throughout this epistle, Paul has wielded the rod of remonstrance, irony, and indignation.
True Christians manifest Christ's personal *presence* among men.
The Apostle Paul identifies five essential components: man's utmost happiness (salvation itself), the means to attain it (the gospel), the grace required (believing), the faculty necessary (memory), and the relationship binding them together.
Writing approximately thirty years after the event itself, Paul enumerates five distinct appearances of the risen Christ, including His manifestation to James, which aligns with the *Gospel of the Hebrews* and demonstrates an independent historical source.
The commission 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature' was not spoken to the eleven apostles alone, but to all generations of Christ's Church.
Upon this eternal, self-existent fidelity we can repose with safety.
The apostle Paul, when dissuading from impurity, eschewed mere physical or social arguments.
Paul renounced the "wisdom of words" because human eloquence veils the gospel's truth.
When Socrates drank hemlock in Athens and Caesar fell upon the Roman senate floor, their deaths remained final.
Our relation to Christ determines our relation to the entire universe.
Exell's Victorian commentary illuminates three fatal substitutes for love-driven charity.
The greatest truths burned high in the heavens like the star that guided the Magi, yet they directed Christians to the humblest details of daily conduct.
Of all species of deception, self-deception proves most detrimental; it is like having a traitor within the fortress who betrays his country to the enemy.
He writes, "These things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes." Rather than naming the false teachers at Corinth who had created divisions, Paul applies his corrective principles to himself and Apollos—respected...
The first four ring out 'sharp and short like pistol-shots'—watch, stand fast, quit you like men, be strong—a military cadence that marshals the believer for spiritual combat.
Love proves far more effective than logic in attaining the best ends.
Propriety demands three conditions: first, that things be done in their proper time; second, that they be kept to their proper use; third, that they be put in their proper place.