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A paradox haunts this tetrarch: he reverenced God's faithful minister while remaining enslaved to his own appetites.
Joseph Parker, D.D., asks: Is there not stirring in the human heart the recognition that *I was meant to be a king*?
First, it demonstrated that on the Sabbath especially, men must attend to the interests of the soul rather than bodily comforts.
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...