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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

Adam Clarke

The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
ADAM CLARKE

Country Custom Discovered East Island Noticed Old Prevail Still Testament
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other’s praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher
ADAM CLARKE

Emotion God Man Pride Revelation Self Teacher Vanity
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
ADAM CLARKE

Ascertained Clarkes Easily Extraction Family Norman People
To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.
ADAM CLARKE

Fill Filled Fullness Great Greater Thing
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
ADAM CLARKE

Act Communicate Devotion Fault Great Happiness Happy Other Sacrifice Self
Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man’s heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.
ADAM CLARKE

Care Christian Heart Obstacle People Pharisees Prayer Pride Salvation Scribe Self Vanity
Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
ADAM CLARKE

Account Attendant Degree Heard History Lord Saw Spirit
They must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
ADAM CLARKE

Forfeit Good Lose Multitude Opinion Reputation Soul
Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
ADAM CLARKE

Christ Done Humble Indeed Little Man Spoken
All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
ADAM CLARKE

Abuse Creation Creator Creature God Property Robbery Spoil Waste
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
ADAM CLARKE

Blessing Condemns God Grace Humble Show Sin
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
ADAM CLARKE

Excellencies Immutable Infancy Man Mean Progress Watch
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin – natural, which is common and the same to all – patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
ADAM CLARKE

Common Considered Family Human Man Natural Origin Patronymic Race Same Twofold
The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
ADAM CLARKE

Clay Hardens Hardness Same Softens Sun Wax
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
ADAM CLARKE

Bible God Holiness Man Precept Promise Reasonableness Wise
He will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
ADAM CLARKE

Enable Hand Jesus Christ Pleased Prosper Satan Sin Strong

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