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There is a time for the divine decree to be issued against a nation; a time when, though Noah, Job, and Daniel should stand before Him, yet He will not be entreated; though they cry early, cry aloud, cry with...
The question naturally arises: Is not the Christian character a provident one?
This command demands reading with utmost attention, diligence, and devotion—weeping as John did until the sealed book was opened, digging deep in the mine of Scripture for the mind of God, and holding it fast lest it slip away.
This teaching rests upon nature's own law—that no creature exists in isolation, but all things experience mutual action and reaction within Elohim's creation.
The prophet employs the phrase "men of strange lips" to underscore the *alien* nature of this divine communication.
He possessed dominion over all terrestrial creatures and stood in a state of perfect communion with his Maker.
The perverse actively attempt to seduce the righteous from their path—a reality that reveals moral agency itself.
The disciples faced extraordinary demands: sacrifice of domestic ties, loss of property, surrender of their livelihood, and certainty of ridicule and persecution.
How can Christ command what must spring spontaneously from the heart?
In Oriental culture, appearing without the upper garment marked a man as naked—the costume of the robbed, the disgraced, the prisoner of war.
First, it demands a *specific pursuit* (*zēteō* – to seek diligently).
Spurgeon identifies here the surest way to excellence in spiritual knowledge.
Exell's 1887 commentary frames this as a mirror for self-examination in two categories.
What we ought to do, we owe to do; what we ought to be, we owe to be.
At Pentecost, the disciples heard 'a sound as of wind'—yet Maclaren draws a crucial distinction that arrests the imagination: Luke's language carefully distinguishes between the *phonē* (sound) and actual wind. No air rushed through the chamber. No hair on any...
The particle "therefore" (*dio*) anchors judgment in three ascending causes: first, their impiety itself; second, their refusal to repent despite God's discipline ("they turned not to Him that smote them"); and third, their continued obstinacy in refusing to seek the...
When David declares, 'The Lord looketh down from heaven; he beholdeth all the children of men,' we grasp a truth that should steady our trembling hearts.
Infinite Benevolence would have His saints to be happy.
Matthew 24:27 compares our Lord's return to lightning flashing across the sky. Joseph S. Exell's Victorian exposition unpacks two essential truths. First, Christ's advent shall be sudden. The masses will be unprepared, as unsuspecting as a city when lightning leaps...
Yet our feelings regarding His appearing reveal the true condition of our hearts before Elohim.
First comes the hopeful resolve: "I will keep thy statutes." The believer plants his feet firmly, determined to walk in obedience to Yahweh's ordinances.
First, consider your *private* ways—those moments in solitude when no eye observes but Yahweh's.
This is not peculiar to Christianity—the ancient Greeks inscribed "Know thyself" on their noblest public buildings.
This doctrine of Divine omniscience rests upon irrefutable proofs.