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Christ lays His hand upon every form of human love—the family bond, the marriage covenant, and the precious thing of friendship itself.
This vivid metaphor describes how God's people must guard and maintain the truths contained in Scripture through deliberate action.
Weakness becomes the vessel for His empowerment, as vine-sap fills the hollow branch and water flows into the hollowed basin.
Joseph Exell observed in 1887 that Moses' law was geographically confined to Judea, while other systems adapted to local customs and remained regional.
The circle stands as geometry's most perfect figure, and God selected it as His design for creation itself.
In His humanity, Christ emerges as the Rod from Jesse's stem, the Branch from his roots (Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 3:8).
The striking agreement between Paul's report and the eyewitness accounts of those present stands as evidence of Scripture's truth.
Christ is King in Zion—the sole Sovereign of His Church by the Father's appointment and ordination.
The repetition *houtos* (this very one) marks a decisive moment in Israel's history.
Many professing Christians require conversion; many churches require Christianization.
If God be for us, who can be against us?
This covenant embraced three distinct circles of blessing.
A great many cannot afford to have Christ.
Upon this eternal, self-existent fidelity we can repose with safety.
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.
This distinguishes His Church from every other society—without Christ present, there is no Church.
The latter we enjoy now through faith and hope; but the former is present with us, the certain consequence and necessary attendant upon a mind truly virtuous and religious.
Boundaries were marked by corner-stones placed at the edges of fields.
The prophet's promise reaches its climax precisely where the people need it most: not in the initial rush of joy and anticipation, when they rose "on the wings of an eagle," but in the exhausting, monotonous tramp of the actual...
The prophet's vision does not end in ruin.
Each was made according to His sovereign purpose, functioning as links between His eternal decrees and His redemptive acts—the voice of the decree becoming the herald of the act.
Skinner observed, the Messianic age flows from every historical crisis—Babylon's captivity becomes the type of humanity's greater deliverance.
First, in *number*: Under the ancient dispensation, spiritual Israel remained comparatively few.