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287 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The Acts of the Apostles overflows with language of "disputation," "conference," and "reasoning." The apostles "came together to consider the matter"; "It pleased the apostles and elders and the whole Church"; they assembled "with one accord." This pattern reveals how...
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This political maxim assigns to human morality the determinative power over public prosperity or ruin.
"It is not good to eat much honey," Solomon warns.
Contention—reasoned argument between parties willing to hear—remains legitimate and often dutiful.
Exell's Victorian commentary unpacks the deceptive nature of rebellion: "Treason and rebellion are such horrid and loathsome crimes that if they should appear in their native visage and genuine deformity they could never form a party." Instead, they insinuate themselves...
Love is no sentimental weakness; it is the ardent, sagacious, far-sighted virtue that Scripture commends.
From the foolish child who refuses parental authority to the foolish man who resists rebuke, pride precedes the fall.
Consider how a false witness operates in a criminal trial.
We must not only get, but keep, this precious treasure, retaining it in our hearts, showing it forth in all our behaviour, and refusing to part with it on any account.
Exell's Victorian exposition distinguishes between two essential dimensions of this strength, each indispensable to true manhood.
This scientific curiosity illuminates the proverb's moral force: corruption can masquerade as brilliance.
In August 1936, Jesse Owens stood on the verge of elimination at the Berlin Olympics. The African American sprinter from Alabama had fouled twice in...
First, *enlightenment*—the soul without knowledge cannot flourish; true understanding must be informed by the science of duty and knowledge of Elohim.
The Wise Teacher presents three critical warnings about approaching places of moral danger.
It was "the tillage of the poor"—the careful, diligent husbandry of the man with only a small patch of land—that filled the storehouses of the Holy Land.
This Hebrew rebuke strikes at a weakness of human nature: we minimize the commonplace and exalt the distant.
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* identifies three marks of temptation as she conducts her ministry of ruin.
What does it mean to trust one's heart?
Wisdom denotes theoretical knowledge of truth—distinguishing real from apparent truths through understanding their causes and properties.
Yet the relation of the righteous and the wicked to trouble differs strikingly.
In March 1841, Dorothea Dix walked into the East Cambridge Jail to teach a Sunday school class and encountered something that changed her life. Mentally...
On the evening of October 28, 1787, William Wilberforce sat at his oak desk in his home at Old Palace Yard, Westminster, and scratched a...
On the evening of March 24, 1882, Robert Koch stood before the Berlin Physiological Society and changed the course of medicine forever. Tuberculosis had ravaged...
In December 1937, Japanese forces captured Nanjing, China, and unleashed weeks of mass violence against civilians. While many foreign nationals evacuated, American missionary Minnie Vautrin...