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4261 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1013.47 (Matthew Henry)
… this choice they are designed for sets them above the world, and so makes them the objects of its envy. The saints shall judge the world, and the upright have …
4262 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1014.18 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice, but graciously over-rules it, and gives us the physic we are loth to take, because he knows it is good for us.
4263 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1014.67 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice and enjoyment of.
4264 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1014.92 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice, when they are alone, as Isaac in the field, Nathanael under the fig-tree, Peter upon the house-top, meditating and praying, the Father is with them …
4265 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1016.70 (Matthew Henry)
… first choice well, and not to mingle with those whom we cannot please without displeasing God.
4266 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1017.4 (Matthew Henry)
… people’s choice, took Jesus, and scourged him, that is, appointed the lictors that attended him to do it. Bede is of opinion that Pilate scourged Jesus himself …
4267 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1018.85 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice, and entirely refer ourselves to him. This is the vital act of faith, He is mine, Song of Solomon 2:16 .
4268 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.8 (Matthew Henry)
… , Christ’s choice is always attended with his charge. Those whom he elected into the apostleship expected he should give them preferments, instead of which …
4269 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.40 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of another apostle. He stood up in the midst of the disciples, Acts 1:15. He did not sit down, as one that gave laws, or had any supremacy over the rest, but …
4270 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.47 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of another apostle, Acts 1:21, 1:22. Here observe, (1.) How the person must be qualified that must fill the vacancy. It must be one of these men, these seventy …
4271 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1025.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice.
4272 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1025.18 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice, and ordained them. [1.] They prayed with them, and for them, that God would give them more and more of the Holy Ghost and of wisdom—that he would qualify …
4273 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.17 (Matthew Henry)
… made choice among us that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel. Now here,
4274 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.31 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice he had made of their fathers, Deuteronomy 7:7, 7:8. They were beloved purely for the fathers’ sakes, Romans 11:28 .
4275 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.36 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice was divine: I have found David, Psalms 89:20. God himself pitched upon him. Finding implies seeking; as if God had ransacked all the families of Israel …
4276 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.13 (Matthew Henry)
… made choice among us apostles of one to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, and I was the person chosen, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word, and …
4277 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.28 (Matthew Henry)
… . The choice of the delegates that were to be sent with Paul and Barnabas on this errand; not as if they had any suspicion of the fidelity of these great men, and …
4278 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.44 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice of Christ and their resolutions for Christ. (2.) To exhort them to perseverance, and to the particular duties required of them: to quicken them to …
4279 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1041.14 (Matthew Henry)
… particular choice; his calling God the God of our fathers intimates that Ananias was himself a Jew by birth, that observed the law of the fathers, and lived …
4280 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1044.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice or of course, comes to this resolution: Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? Unto Caesar thou shalt go. He found there was something very extraordinary …