That helps me put the passage in its cultural-historical context and determine the biblical principle or timeless truth.

We cherish timeless truth and implement proven strategies.

Another timeless truth: achievements themselves aren't what count, it's the fact that you worked for them.

A troupe of 12 dancers weaved their way through both stagings as though the carriers of a timeless truth.

This view, argued as a timeless truth, was also a natural consequence of the dominance of melodrama and spectacle on the early 19th-century stage.