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Exell observed in 1887, this earthly life proved too shallow a vessel to hold peace, righteousness, worship, and divine love.
Paul, writing to the Hebrews, calls this inner barrier "the second veil," describing it as the threshold beyond which lay the most sacred articles of Jewish worship.
Romans 8:29-30 presents three critical truths about this chain.
The Hebrew Christians, like wilderness Israelites, were offered the gospel and eternal rest, yet required active faith to obtain it.
The human heart reveals its corruption most plainly in how it despises true Christianity while admiring false religion's pageantry.
Rees preached last in North Wales, a friend said to him—one of those who are always reminding people that they are getting old—"You are whitening fast, Dr.
These are few, extraordinary, and universal in scope.
Matthew 24:27 compares our Lord's return to lightning flashing across the sky. Joseph S. Exell's Victorian exposition unpacks two essential truths. First, Christ's advent shall be sudden. The masses will be unprepared, as unsuspecting as a city when lightning leaps...
There exist two worlds: the world of sense and the world of spirit.
Life and immortality have been brought to light through the gospel alone; without Christ's revelation, humanity possessed only feeble conjecture regarding the afterlife.
The Victorian homiletics of Joseph Exell (1887) pressed a crucial distinction: godliness genuinely lengthens life, not through magic, but through obedience to Yahweh's wholesome laws.
Yet a great intellect dissociated from moral control becomes a scourge and terror.
The Church Fathers offered profound interpretations of this triple declaration.
First, Christ will return with inexpressible dignity and grandeur to vindicate the honour of the Divine administration, demonstrating the admirable wisdom and justice with which Yahweh has governed creation.
Christ's kingdom exists to bring rebels to obedience within God's government.
First, in *number*: Under the ancient dispensation, spiritual Israel remained comparatively few.
When mortals undertake an enterprise, unforeseen difficulties arise and baffle our best calculations.
Nearly eighteen centuries have passed since Demetrius laid down his pastoral labours and died, yet Christ has not yet returned to judgment.
The jasper of the Apocalypse bears the characteristics of diamond: the most precious of stones, shining like the sun, displaying no single colour yet containing all colours in its pure, white light.
"He will swallow up death in victory"—a promise echoed throughout Scripture.
This promise encompasses science, literature, arts, commerce, and above all, religion itself—all shall be renewed.
The dispensation under which we live is emphatically that of night, in comparison with the dispensation to be introduced at the day of the Lord.
The Preacher employed a single lamp to illuminate the young man's delusion about the strange woman's house: the lamp named "At the last." This is no ordinary light but Ithuriel's spear itself, which according to Milton's *Paradise Lost*, dispels all...
Efforts to do good are misunderstood and ill-requited; benevolent plans are ridiculed, motives misrepresented, kindness abused, and hopes of success treated as visionary.