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Christ is King in Zion—the sole Sovereign of His Church by the Father's appointment and ordination.
To apprehend God's loving-kindness means to duly perceive it, believe it with persuasion, esteem it above all treasures, and consider it with serious remembrance.
Bishop Beveridge identifies the structure with precision: the apostle Paul establishes that holiness is lived *because we are saved*, not *in order to be saved*.
Jesus Christ proclaimed these words knowing the world's deepest moral condition.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord—not because the ritual itself is defective, but because the worshipper lacks consideration.
To eat and drink unworthily means partaking of the sacramental bread and wine contrary to Christ's institution, not discerning the Lord's body in the ordinance.
Exell's Victorian commentary illuminates why envy surpasses even explosive anger in spiritual danger.
The Second Person appeared in human flesh; the Third Person descended as a dove; the First Person testified through voice alone, honoring the principle given to Israel: "Ye saw no shape, but ye heard a voice." The dove symbolizes Christ's...
Christ was the reputed son of a village carpenter, a poor despised Nazarene—yet His fame spread abroad.
Figuratively, it describes the literal Zion; spiritually, it sets forth the visible and mystical Church.
Life and health form the foundation of all other enjoyments.
This is no arbitrary decree, but a solemn declaration to which all holy spirits give their willing assent—an ordinance whose justice even the excluded themselves shall admit.
The Judaizers' insistence on circumcision and Jewish law constituted blasphemy against Christ's redemptive work, shocking Paul's reverence for the One they dishonoured.
The upright man bequeaths his heirs three precious gifts: (1) His example—a living testimony that sons and daughters may trace throughout their own success.
They streamed into the wilderness seeking baptism as a *talisman*, a magical protection against coming judgment.
Of all species of deception, self-deception proves most detrimental; it is like having a traitor within the fortress who betrays his country to the enemy.
These men had condemned an innocent man to death—yet their conscience remained untroubled.
Gaze not on beauty overmuch, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee.
The first four ring out 'sharp and short like pistol-shots'—watch, stand fast, quit you like men, be strong—a military cadence that marshals the believer for spiritual combat.
Consider the work of mortification—to pluck out our eyes, to chop off our hands, to cut off our feet.
Yet Christians must judge timidity differently than the world does.
The ruined city in Solomon's metaphor depicts precisely this condition.
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.
Propriety demands three conditions: first, that things be done in their proper time; second, that they be kept to their proper use; third, that they be put in their proper place.