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The investiture of Christ operates on two levels: the clothing of a garment and the clothing of a person.
He began with doubt: "If Thou be the Son of God," targeting the very foundation of our Lord's identity and Sonship.
Exell's Victorian instruction distinguishes three journals worthy of consideration.
This imperative cuts deeper than His miracles over wind and waves—it exercises mastery over the highest principles of human nature itself.
Love flows from three sources: the love of the Father as its hidden root, the love of Christ as its first manifestation, and the love of believers for each other as its full outpouring.
Exell observes a crucial two-fold aspect in this verse: the same divine way operates as *strength* (Hebrew *maoz*, fortress) to the righteous and as ruin to the wicked.
Few win laurels; many lose by a hair's-breadth, never glimpsing the goal.
Isaiah quotes an ancient prediction (also preserved in Micah iv.
By "plants," we understand three categories: every false doctrine, every corrupt practice, and every unregenerate person who claims membership in the visible Church without transformation by Elohim.
We are led not as brute beasts driven against our nature, but as reasonable creatures whose wills remain intact yet transformed by grace.
— Human conduct divides into two paths, each revealing the heart's orientation toward Elohim.
But what constitutes a true prophet worthy of reception?
First, the apostles felt the impulse of a new undertaking—the resurrection of their crucified Master demanded proclamation.
Christ Himself proclaimed freedom from sin (John 8:33–36), while Paul proclaimed freedom from the law—both ceremonial and moral.
First, God's judgment is *correct*—according to the facts of the case, not assumption or hearsay.
God Himself ordains the family as His constitutive institution, granting parents rank immediately beneath His own throne.
First, it was a simple, child-like dependence on the naked *rhema* (spoken word) of God—not reasoned argument or sensory evidence.
First, Christ was compelled by His supreme sense of duty.
This Jerusalem "above" is **not** the earthly city of David's throne, but the eternal communion of believers bound by grace.
Proverbs 3:5 presents not a rejection of reason, but its proper boundary. The question posed by Joseph S. Exell remains vital: what are reason's limits? Shall we accept only what our intellect comprehends, refusing truth that transcends rational explanation? Consider...
The Apostle envisions perfection operating at two inseparable levels.
Adam loved life as "an unbroken walk with the Eternal"; we commonly cling to existence as a removal from His presence.
The Hebrew parallel, *nes* (ensign or standard), connects to Jehovah-Nissi (Exodus 17:15), God's banner of victory.
It is a corruption of self-love, a form of self-flattery.