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3 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Neither Ezra nor Nehemiah originated this gathering—they obeyed "a popular impulse which they had not created." This is extraordinary because Ezra, who had labored thirteen years in Jerusalem fighting corruptions among the returned captives, had never before promulgated the law...
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Here stood a cup-bearer in the Persian court of Artaxerxes at Shushan, a man whose position required such intimate access to power that he could omit the king's name from his record—assuming every reader knew his magnitude.
Maclaren seizes on this universal truth: "Half-way is just the critical time in all protracted work.