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— Proverbs 16:10 Moral and corporeal chastisement operate in distinct spheres, each legitimate within its domain.
Tow—the coarse, broken refuse of flax or hemp—becomes the metaphor for those whom sin has hollowed from within.
His prayer echoes the psalmist's cry: "Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me Thy law graciously" (Psalm 119:29).
A paradox haunts this tetrarch: he reverenced God's faithful minister while remaining enslaved to his own appetites.
The Jews could boast of their national lineage.
This is not arbitrary cruelty but the operation of a law that has governed history from its beginning.
Isaiah's indictment of Judah's rulers cuts to the heart of institutional decay: "Thy princes are rebellious . . . every one loveth gifts." The prophetic diagnosis identifies two fatal disorders. First, *mercenary ambition* replaces duty. These magistrates pursued salaries, fees,...
They have beaten me and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. (Proverbs 20:35) Joseph S. Exell's 1887 illustration draws a striking parallel between surgical anaesthesia and moral corruption. Just as modern medicine...
Jewish beds were merely mattresses laid upon the floor, covered by a sheet or carpet in which the weary person wrapped himself seeking rest.
Paul's in Rome stands Monte Testaccio, an artificial mound nearly one-third of a mile in circumference and one hundred fifty feet high.
They studied the law with meticulous precision, yet remained practical strangers to its transformative power.
The ablest theologians have settled that good intention cannot sanctify an immoral act; yet an evil intention will certainly corrupt even the best performances.
The Greek word here *kleio* means not merely to close, but to lock—to shut in a way that cannot be reopened.
From the foolish child who refuses parental authority to the foolish man who resists rebuke, pride precedes the fall.
He stands at the dim verge of existence, a beacon light to all who live without Elohim.
When a wild, offensive tree grows in a garden and the gardener cuts its top, if it sends forth sprouts as bad as before, he digs up the root itself.
Under Tiberius, as in the Victorian era, three religious postures competed.