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15 illustrations for sermon preparation
Ancient voices—from pagan philosophy to church fathers like Chrysostom—branded her a "necessary evil" and "domestic peril." Italian, German, and English proverbs competed in contempt, suggesting women were the source of all calamity.
Exell (1887) identifies flattery's essential character: it assumes all forms and colors, a universal countenance indifferent to truth.
Man suffers equally under two extremes: subjected without redress to another's passions, or abandoned to the dominion of his own.
Consider two grave consequences: First, pride subjects a man to the imputation of folly.
The Hebrew *chazon* (vision) encompasses prophecy itself: the preaching, expounding, and applying of Elohim's Word.
The original Hebrew *musar* (discipline, instruction) paired with the rod establishes wisdom in a child; conversely, a child left to himself brings shame upon his mother.
Exell's Victorian commentary catalogues six species of this spiritual blindness with surgical precision.
Exell applied to Victorian London with urgent clarity.
Human history becomes one prolonged wrestling match with God's infinite riddle.
Solomon speaks of one "often reproved" yet stubbornly hardening his neck—the ancient metaphor for a beast refusing the yoke of obedience.
His request embodies a *comparative prayer*—not rejecting wealth or comfort, but asking for *lechem* (bread), sufficiency positioned between want and superfluity.
The river appears broad and deep enough for navigation—possessing all the physical requirements for commerce and transport.
This creature of supreme power teaches four vital lessons, as expounded by R.
This blessing represents a profound debt owed to godly parenthood.
Every passion of the soul serves beneficial purposes when rightly ordered, yet fear—perverted from its proper use—becomes a trap that destroys both wisdom and virtue.
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