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He bore the penalty of his transgression against the Lord at Kadesh, excluded from Canaan's rest.
The striking agreement between Paul's report and the eyewitness accounts of those present stands as evidence of Scripture's truth.
Rather, He sets him apart for Himself—to converse with him, to communicate Himself to him as a friend and companion, making him His delight.
While Peter, James, and John lay *drunken with sleep* during the earlier communion between Christ and the two mighty dead, they heard nothing.
Christ is King in Zion—the sole Sovereign of His Church by the Father's appointment and ordination.
Christ lays His hand upon every form of human love—the family bond, the marriage covenant, and the precious thing of friendship itself.
"He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth" (Psalm 50:4).
This vivid metaphor describes how God's people must guard and maintain the truths contained in Scripture through deliberate action.
Surrounded by giant empires wielding brute force—Pharaoh and his kind—David had learned through both experience and divine inspiration that true monarchy operates on different principles entirely.
The linen material—simple, natural—typifies the human nature Christ wears in His glorified state, in which He executes all services of His exalted Priesthood as our Representative.
Canon Liddon identified three marks of our Lord's words: the divine authority that speaks through them, their elevation above earthly discourse, and their awful depth that pierces the soul.
This image reveals two dimensions of His fastening hold upon humanity.
For six days, Israel performed what appeared utterly useless—a silent, circular procession around an impregnable fortress.
This distinguishes His Church from every other society—without Christ present, there is no Church.
First, God's kindness (*chesed*) embodies tenderness toward the God-fearing.
The material vine one might observe by the wayside becomes merely shadow; the truth resides in Him alone.
Yet Spurgeon's commentator, John Field, clarifies what this plea was *not*: it was no prayer *to* David, nor did it suggest the dead saints intercede for us.
The hereditary monarchy secured peaceful succession but never guaranteed continuity of godly policy.
Neither Ezra nor Nehemiah originated this gathering—they obeyed "a popular impulse which they had not created." This is extraordinary because Ezra, who had labored thirteen years in Jerusalem fighting corruptions among the returned captives, had never before promulgated the law...
These phases repeat with such regularity that he compares them to *the white and red lights and darkness reappearing in a revolving lighthouse lantern, or figures recurring in a circulating decimal fraction*.
Maclaren observes that this righteous man embodies the very purpose God pursued through millenniums of providential dealing and inspiration.
This covenant embraced three distinct circles of blessing.
A great many cannot afford to have Christ.
In His humanity, Christ emerges as the Rod from Jesse's stem, the Branch from his roots (Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 3:8).