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By Joseph S. Exell · 1887 · 1,353 illustrations
The Biblical Illustrator is a 56-volume reference work compiled by Joseph S. Exell in the late 19th century. Each passage of Scripture is illuminated with historical anecdotes, biographical sketches, analogies from nature, and homiletical observations drawn from ancient and contemporary sources. These illustrations have been carefully restored from the original public-domain text and rewritten for clarity and accessibility — preserving the historical depth while removing Victorian OCR artifacts.
Yet even these legendary forests prove inadequate before Adonai's majesty.
Elohim has endowed mankind with powers of variation and complexity unmatched in creation, yet this very richness becomes our peril.
First, the power to raise humanity must come from without—from the Divine.
First, Jerusalem—despoiled by enemies, forsaken for generations, a city "which no man seeketh after"—shall be restored to glory.
Richard Hooker, the great theologian, wrote that law's "seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world." All creation—material and spiritual—moves according to divine law.
The Divine nature could not be separated from the human; He remained eternally God.
Untruthfulness violates God's character through multiple channels: excuses that misrepresent our conduct, exaggeration born of carelessness or vanity, equivocation where words technically deceive through impression, dissimulation that allows false impressions through silence, broken promises from rashness or neglect, and falsehood...
After some great perplexity, some dark hour, or some mysterious visitation, when there seemed to be no clue to an event and not a spark of illumination about it, it is a blessed relief to mind and soul when we...
Exell (1887) observed that adversity, though bitter medicine, purifies nations—but prosperity proves far more perilous.