Dictionary entry

LIMITATIONS, HUMAN

Thompson Chain Topics

(1) Man Subject to

Way hedged up
Job 3:23

Feet in the stocks
Job 13:27; Job 19:8

Time limited
Ps 90:10; Ec 8:8

Boundaries of life
Ps 139:5; Ps 3:7

No power to change a hair
Mt 5:36

No power to add a stature
Mt 6:27

--Knowledge Limited.SEEKnowledge Withheld,MYSTERIES
Future Hidden,MYSTERIES
--Strength Limited.SEEFrailty,TRANSIENT
Human Weakness,WEAKNESS

(2) Man's Limited Resources

A little bread and a bottle of water
Ge 21:14

A handful of meal and a cruse of oil
1Ki 17:12

A pot of oil
2Ki 4:2

Five barley loaves and two small fishes
Mt 34

An empty larder
Lu 11:6

--God condescends to meetthe limited resources and conditions of
men

Small offerings accepted from the poor
Le 22

Two mites from the widow
Mr 12:42-44

A cup of cold water, not despised
Mt 10:42

Faith, even as a grain of mustard seed, mighty
Mt 17:20

Two or three assembled in Christ's name have the promise of the divine
presence
Mt 18:20

--SEEWeak Instrumentalities,POWER
Giving according to ability,LIBERALITY