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Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* offers three principles for this conquest.
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.
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 abuses of the tongue are manifold, and malignity ranks foremost among them.
The diseased crowded for healing; the teachable gathered for celestial wisdom; the curious witnessed stupendous miracles.
Cleanse Thou me from secret faults." — Psalm 19:12 Sin possesses a remarkable tenacity and cunning.
While all persons possess some sense of duty rooted deeply in the human heart, the constant strife between inclination and principle generates contradiction in conduct.
This text reveals a profound truth: bodily satisfaction depends entirely upon the soul's condition.
The Pharisees came, bound by scrupulous external observance and self-satisfied pride.
First, men cannot walk in good ways unless they leave the bad ones.
Thomas Carlyle observed with prescience: "There is a great necessity indeed of getting a little more silent than we are.
The *peripateo* (walking) denotes chosen motion—not forced proximity, but intentional association.
Iniquity expresses unevenness or inequality—a want of rectitude or moral principle.
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.
Gaze not on beauty overmuch, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee.
The ruined city in Solomon's metaphor depicts precisely this condition.
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.
Yet Christians must judge timidity differently than the world does.
Exell observes that science itself demonstrates this principle: the passions of grief, disappointment, anger, jealousy, and revenge derange the bodily system in proportion to their strength, while pleasurable emotions rooted in moral virtue give buoyancy and vigor to the body.
Since He is full of mercy Himself, He delights when we exercise the same toward our fellow creatures.