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While diligent hunters prepare their catch the same evening, this sluggard lacks the will to strip the hide or kindle the fire.
They diverted streams and springs outside the walls, redirected water away from besiegers, and constructed a moat between the city's inner and outer fortifications—filling it with water from the old pool.
We are shaped irrevocably by our mothers in that far-off time of childhood—we become what our homes made us.
First, *enlightenment*—the soul without knowledge cannot flourish; true understanding must be informed by the science of duty and knowledge of Elohim.
As the day winds down and we gather our thoughts, let us turn to the solace of prayer. Picture yourself in a quiet corner of your home, perhaps with a candle flickering nearby, casting gentle shadows that dance on the...
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.
Solomon speaks of one "often reproved" yet stubbornly hardening his neck—the ancient metaphor for a beast refusing the yoke of obedience.
Archbishop John Tillotson (D.D.) identifies two pillars supporting this claim.
Perseverance is the badge of the saint—marked in Scripture, confirmed by analogy, and vindicated by common sense.
Exell's Victorian analysis unfolds the nature of Messiah's government in three essential movements.
First, Elohim has appointed that a portion of happiness accrues to the righteous in this present world, while the misery wages of sin fall yet more abundantly upon the wicked.
Every passion of the soul serves beneficial purposes when rightly ordered, yet fear—perverted from its proper use—becomes a trap that destroys both wisdom and virtue.
The three instruments of capture—fear, pit, and snare—represent distinct methods of trapping wild beasts that Isaiah applies to human judgment.
This is the exact location where King Ahaz had rejected Jehovah's help centuries before, preferring Assyrian alliance instead (Isaiah 7:3).
She is the chief of the four cardinal virtues and may rightly be termed the hinge that turns them all about: wisdom to direct, justice to correct, temperance to abstain, fortitude to sustain.
Solomon commands: "Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them." The wise are least likely to covet such company, yet this counsel applies universally.
He stands at the dim verge of existence, a beacon light to all who live without Elohim.
We must not hate others because they hate us (Matthew 5:44), nor curse them for their curses (2 Samuel 16:10).
Wisdom denotes theoretical knowledge of truth—distinguishing real from apparent truths through understanding their causes and properties.
Every person becomes his brother's keeper within this divine arrangement.
The Prophet compares Israel's transgression to a high wall that begins with a small rent, or breach, in its lower section—a structural weakness that seems manageable at first.
We hear denunciations of unfaithfulness and immediately agree; yet we fail to recognize ourselves in those very terms.
The Greek word *kapeleuo* (to peddle or retail for profit) originally described tavern keepers who adulterated wine—blending inferior stock, falsifying measures, deceiving customers for gain.
Exell's 1887 exposition clarifies what this metaphor demands of Christian ministers.