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Most possess considerable advantages: the pure teaching of Scripture, the living voices of parents and ministers, and the Spirit of Elohim unfolding truth to conscience.
The Preacher employed a single lamp to illuminate the young man's delusion about the strange woman's house: the lamp named "At the last." This is no ordinary light but Ithuriel's spear itself, which according to Milton's *Paradise Lost*, dispels all...
The pulpit offered dull platitudes while Christ's followers never asked: How would He have acted if He had vegetables to sell or horses to drive?
Solomon warns that the seductress "spreads a thousand snares"; escape one entanglement only to find yourself caught by another.
Livingstone discovered among Africa's rudest tribes: even those without Scripture readily admit their sinfulness.
Exell's 1887 commentary frames this as a mirror for self-examination in two categories.
It was no frivolous boon which Christ, in the days of His sojourn on earth, thought proper to confer when, in the external sense, He opened blind eyes.
During inspection, workers discovered a live artillery shell wedged in a disused corner—a projectile that had remained concealed for over fourteen years.
Exell's Victorian instruction distinguishes three journals worthy of consideration.
The word "wages" (*opsonion*) denotes "rations"—the daily bread supplied to a Roman soldier.
Exell identifies a devastating spiritual reality: the helplessness of idols abandoned by their worshippers.
The hand lifts itself to violence, as Cain's did against Abel, or grasps what belongs to others, as Achan seized forbidden spoils.
The scorner dismisses all religious forms as hollow "cant," corrupting the young and weak-minded through cynical manipulation.
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.
Exell identifies the wicked with precision: those who willfully violate God's precepts—drinkers, profane persons, those who dishonor the Sabbath, the dishonest.
First, good actions performed for wrong motives corrupt their value.
First, God's judgment is *correct*—according to the facts of the case, not assumption or hearsay.
Exell's Victorian commentary catalogues six species of this spiritual blindness with surgical precision.
It is a corruption of self-love, a form of self-flattery.
God possesses unspeakable glory and greatness—the blessed and only Potentate sustaining all creatures and glorified in every work.
Exell observes that God, in His sovereignty, took them at their word—a principle demonstrated throughout Scripture.
First, it is Divine in its nature—originating from Elohim Himself, not from human effort or merit.
Yet these men possessed extraordinary learning in the law of Moses—literal mastery of Scripture's letter.
This phrase unveils three profound truths about the Divine nature.