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— Human conduct divides into two paths, each revealing the heart's orientation toward Elohim.
The righteous possess true faith in Christ, consecrate their spirit to Elohim, live a heavenly life on earth, and have been renewed by the Holy Ghost.
Holiness is not something bestowed upon Jehovah—it is eternally, originally, and unchangeably His own.
Many theologians of Exell's era debated whether justice or mercy should prevail in law, education, and doctrine.
Exell's Victorian commentary catalogues six species of this spiritual blindness with surgical precision.
This Jerusalem "above" is **not** the earthly city of David's throne, but the eternal communion of believers bound by grace.
The Apostle envisions perfection operating at two inseparable levels.
This requirement demands clarification through five moral attributes of Elohim.
God possesses unspeakable glory and greatness—the blessed and only Potentate sustaining all creatures and glorified in every work.
This fast illuminates six crucial truths about temptation and spiritual warfare.
Yet these men possessed extraordinary learning in the law of Moses—literal mastery of Scripture's letter.
All sin is an offense against Elohim, and nothing corrects it more powerfully than worthy thoughts of God and our relation to Him.
Infinite Benevolence would have His saints to be happy.
This doctrine of Divine omniscience rests upon irrefutable proofs.
This vision encompasses three profound movements of the soul.
David was no ordinary supplicant—he was a Hebrew poet of the highest order, standing upon the pedestal of all preceding poetry to elevate his art to nobler heights.
The angel rebuked him: "See thou do it not" (Revelation 22:8-9).
To grasp its sweetest meaning, we must enter the spirit of Isaiah 24, which thunders with clouds, darkness, and judgment.
"Surely God is in thee." — Jehovah Himself present in His Church. I. THE DIGNITY OF THE CHURCH. Solomon marveled when Jehovah promised His presence in the newly erected temple. Yet there exists a nobler temple for God—the Church composed...
"In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord." The righteous person refuses to pay respect where it is undeserved and withholds it nowhere it is merited.
The Hebrew *chazon* (vision) encompasses prophecy itself: the preaching, expounding, and applying of Elohim's Word.
Christians remain exposed to divine curse if guilty of the sins to which it appertains—not the curse of condemnation for believers, but the curse retained on record for those who practice wickedness.
Man, as a fallen being with alienated affections and distorted views, requires precise Divine direction.
In these proverbs of purity, the wise man personifies wisdom's rival standing in earth's great thoroughfares, bidding simple youth to shameful pleasures along the broad and crowded way.