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188 illustrations
This breath infused intelligence in the brain and vitality in the heart, making man a moral being capable of virtue and responsible for his actions.
Across continents and centuries—from China's imperial annals recording the discovery of "bread-stones" during famine, to the West African coast where the yellowish earth called "caouac" sustains entire populations, to the banks of the Orinoco where Humboldt documented indigenous peoples kneading...
First, to take partial views of His glorious gospel.
This man holds his candle at the door to inspect his neighbors while leaving his own room dark.
Yet his refusal revealed his true allegiance: he regarded Jehovah not as his covenant God, but merely as Judaea's territorial deity, inferior to Assyria's gods.
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.
The word carries an evil connotation—recalling the serpent's cunning in Genesis 3—yet here Solomon redeems it to mean discernment rather than deception.
Isaiah 10:14 records the Assyrian conqueror's arrogant declaration: "My hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people." This metaphor exposes the depth of human depravity when power corrupts the soul. The imagery is deliberately contemptuous. A child...
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.
Yet some members deliberately fracture this sanctuary through ill-nature, impulsiveness, falsehood, and selfishness.
The prophet diagnoses a spiritual pathology rooted in poor leadership.
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...
He stands at the dim verge of existence, a beacon light to all who live without Elohim.
First, by way of excellency: wisdom itself surpasses the fairest woman in the world in beauty and worth.
The psalmist exposes a particular sin endemic to human society: the deliberate destruction of others through calculated malice.
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* (1887) distinguishes these opposing spirits: the proud man esteems himself better than others; the humble man esteems others better than himself.
This truth presents two terrible events in human history.