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This creature of supreme power teaches four vital lessons, as expounded by R.
The Victorians understood this principle with particular clarity: the boy who disparages his home affections in pursuit of worldly manhood betrays the very source of true manliness.
Bonar, who lamented: "This year omissions have distressed me more than anything." His confession mirrors our own painful consciousness—we sense that more remains undone than accomplished.
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.
The valley held layer upon layer of sacred memory—the very ground where Abraham had received the divine pledge, 'unto thy seed will I give this land,' and erected his first altar to Yahweh beneath the oak of Moreh.
But when praise flows from a heart refined by obedience to God's commandments, it becomes the noblest utterance of the human soul.
Spurgeon identifies six sequential conditions that precede the comfort we desperately seek.
The companion of Yahweh rejects the fruits of oppression.
Barnes and William Ellery Channing, articulates the multifaceted obligations each demands.
Yet even these legendary forests prove inadequate before Adonai's majesty.
The *defilement* (*tum'ah*) he feared was twofold: the flesh had been offered to idols in Babylon's pagan temples, and the wine mingled with heathen libations.
Observers at Abeih noted that as evening air cooled, locusts literally "camped in the hedges and loose stone walls, covering them over like a swarm of bees settled on a bush." They remained stationary until the sun warmed the next...
First, David knew what was genuinely good for him—not the surface comforts that the flesh craves, but the deep sanctification that Adonai designs for His people.
This political maxim assigns to human morality the determinative power over public prosperity or ruin.
"Then shall ye return," the prophet declares, speaking of a conversion to full recognition of neglected duty and past transgressions.
Actions are judged solely by present utility, not by righteousness.
The original audience resisted Elohim on two grounds: first, because He permitted His people's captivity in a distant land under oppression; second, because liberation seemed impossible, even beyond God's power to effect.
When Joshua's leadership (30 years), Samuel's judgeship (30 years), and Saul's reign (40 years, Acts 13:21) are subtracted from the broader 240–260 year span between Israel's entrance into Canaan and David's coronation, this interval remains.
The fountain of wisdom springs from Elohim alone—not from human cunning or the false oracles consulted by the Gentiles, even by Socrates himself in his weightiest affairs.
His death illustrates three severe truths about human mortality.
Sin is a tyrant usurping dominion where it was never meant to rule.
"It is not good to eat much honey," Solomon warns.
This passage reveals both the excellency of meekness and the mischief of passionateness.
Exell's Victorian commentary unpacks the deceptive nature of rebellion: "Treason and rebellion are such horrid and loathsome crimes that if they should appear in their native visage and genuine deformity they could never form a party." Instead, they insinuate themselves...