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The king received a narrow escape when Jeroboam's schism drove faithful priests and worshippers southward, strengthening his kingdom.
Yet a great intellect dissociated from moral control becomes a scourge and terror.
They forget tomorrow's headaches; they forget that fingers may write their doom upon those very walls.
Yet these men possessed extraordinary learning in the law of Moses—literal mastery of Scripture's letter.
Had Elohim never vouchsafed positive revelation to mankind, we should feel after virtue as one groping in darkness.
Consider the steadfastness of nature itself, dependent utterly upon God's ordinances *mishpatim*—His decrees and established laws.
Proverbs 10:24 unveils two destinies: "The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; but the desire of the righteous shall be granted." Who are the wicked?
Christ performed this miracle only twice: feeding five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, and four thousand with seven loaves.
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.
Spurgeon perceived in this verse a magnificent architecture of the believer's spiritual experience, constructed in three movements.
All sin is an offense against Elohim, and nothing corrects it more powerfully than worthy thoughts of God and our relation to Him.
The Hebrew rendering cuts deeper than arbitrary punishment: "He that despiseth the Word shall bring ruin on himself." This reveals a foundational law of Biblical revelation—that destruction is not merely God's external penalty imposed from above, but rather self-ruin, a...
Against this apostasy, the prophet confronted those who declared, "It is vain to serve God." The nature of God's demanded service comprises five essential marks.
Eight ancient stone steps descend to waters that supplied Jerusalem's citizens for millennia.
They possessed no human sympathy for the sufferer whom hope deferred had made sick and hopeless.
When they differ, it is commonly from ignorance and want of mutual explanation; and therefore when their understandings are informed, as their hearts were right before, they are like so many drops of water on a table—when they touch they...
Scripture's value lies not merely in possession but in keeping its statutes.
"Ye know not what ye ask," Christ replied—not to rebuke their boldness, but to illuminate their blindness.
The *psyche* (soul) represents the living principle at the centre of human capacity, passion, and personality—absolutely priceless to each person, irreplaceable in value.
The guilt of forsaking God rests upon a fundamental truth: man is bound by the law of his nature to obey the Almighty Being who made him an intelligent and immortal creature.
The kiss signifies multiple progressive meanings in Scripture.
The narrative refuses naturalistic explanation; it is supernatural or nothing.
A godly person cannot maintain spiritual vitality while dwelling among those who mock the ways of Adonai.
Solomon warns that the seductress "spreads a thousand snares"; escape one entanglement only to find yourself caught by another.