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This political maxim assigns to human morality the determinative power over public prosperity or ruin.
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.
"It is not good to eat much honey," Solomon warns.
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...
The Wise Teacher presents three critical warnings about approaching places of moral danger.
The way of genuine beneficence unfolds in three movements: first, we give bountifully, not grudgingly.
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.
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).
Every person becomes his brother's keeper within this divine arrangement.
He writes, "It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth." The apostle appeals not to legal requirement but to honour, conscience, and brotherly feeling—which ought to bind the Christian conscience more...
The psalmist had known confinement—threading narrow mountain paths, hiding in cavern cracks and corners while fleeing Saul's persecution.
An Intellectual Contrast: The intelligent man communicates wisdom; when he speaks, men are enlightened, their minds set to thinking, their spirits refreshed.
If only we possessed unbounded wealth, we imagine, how generously we would serve mankind.
This contradicts the hollow modern notion of "the rest of faith" as mere inaction.
The wise man offers five devastating consequences of adultery: it impoverishes men, threatens death, debauches the conscience with guilt, ruins reputation with perpetual infamy, and exposes the adulterer to the jealous husband's rage.
Exell's Victorian exposition illuminates this distinction through precise categories.
Yet some members deliberately fracture this sanctuary through ill-nature, impulsiveness, falsehood, and selfishness.
When Paul recounts his visit to Jerusalem in Galatians 1:19, he distinguishes James from the other apostles, yet acknowledges his singular influence.
This counsel operates on two levels: first, that our hearts reject the flattering speech of the unfaithful, and second, that we become vessels of good doctrine to benefit others.
His prayer echoes the psalmist's cry: "Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me Thy law graciously" (Psalm 119:29).
Solomon presents three essential movements in receiving Divine principles.