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Spurgeon observes that David's sons could never claim ignorance of their obligation.
The psalmist approaches Scripture not as mere literature but as the utterance of Elohim *Theos*—God Himself.
The wicked man often works with great diligence and shrewdness—he is no idle profligate, but a calculating schemer.
First, the word must dwell *ever with me*—constant communion with truth.
"Four young men have I slain with the sword . . . yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the Lord." God's dealings with nations and individuals during trial proceed not from vindictiveness but from love and compassion, designed...
In Old Testament thought, moral and physical evil are not reduced to a single principle.
During the Italian campaigns, five Austrian soldiers—cut off from retreat—rode into a French reserve encampment intending surrender.
On a rainy afternoon, I found myself in a small café filled with the aroma of freshly brewed coffee. It was here that I met Anna, a woman in her late thirties who wore her life like a well-worn coat—frayed...
This intervention—born of her troubling dream—stands as a threefold testimony: the testimony of women to Christ, the testimony of dreams to Christ, and the testimony of suffering to Christ.
Exell's Victorian commentary identifies seven principles embedded in this moment.
Wickedness and peace are mutually destructive terms—not because God arbitrarily withholds peace, but because wickedness itself is incompatible with it.
First, they robbed widows materially—devouring their houses under the facade of lengthy prayers, enriching themselves through religious pretense.
The principle rests on two foundations: love to Christ involving obedience to His word, and living not unto ourselves but unto God and for others' welfare.
God does not pronounce judgment until men have first abused His benevolence and provoked His intervention.
The Almighty does not merely tolerate the godly; He loves them as His dearest friends, entrusting them with His very secrets.
Righteousness most effectually answers the end and design of government itself.
"On the seventh day thou shalt rest." The Sabbath law reveals three profound truths about human need and divine care. First, rest is needful. Exhausted faculties require repose after labour. Without it, work becomes irksome and slovenly rather than joyous...
Achan's sin was not mere theft; it was *maʿal* (breach of trust), that treacherous departure from God described throughout the Pentateuch.
Spurgeon identifies five reasons why this upholding prayer is essential.
Christ teaches that "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"—Matthew 6:34—grounding our freedom from anxiety in three essential truths.
but Israel doth not know." The prophet addressed a people surrounded by idolatrous nations, prone to regarding Jehovah as merely one god among many, or worse, as a provincial deity rather than the God of all the earth.
Christ unveils a graduated progression of spiritual maturity.
First comes the ascription of blessing: "Blessed art thou, O LORD." Here the psalmist recognizes Yahweh's infinite perfection, His majesty, and His absolute worthiness of praise.
Exell's Victorian commentary unpacks reproof as an obligation rooted in love for our neighbours.