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2061 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 649.25 (Matthew Henry)
… get dispensed with, and to contrive excuses for the violating of them. If the matter of them was doubtful, and the expressions were ambiguous, that was his fault …
2062 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 650.3 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation for their unrighteousness; and this makes their way seem right, Proverbs 21:2. We have fasted, Isaiah 58:3. I have peace-offerings with me, Proverbs …
2063 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 657.16 (Matthew Henry)
… God dispenses his gifts; to some he gives wealth, to others wisdom, and it is easy to say which of these is the better gift, which we should covet more earnestly …
2064 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 667.22 (Matthew Henry)
… various dispensations of Providence that respect us, and do the work and duty of the day in its day, Ecclesiastes 7:14. Observe, (1.) How the appointments and events …
2065 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 669.4 (Matthew Henry)
… be dispensed promiscuously, yet God has a particular care of and concern for his own people: The righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God …
2066 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 673.5 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation of bondage and terror, but to receive the communications of divine grace in the gospel, in which God is reconciling the world unto himself …
2067 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 674.18 (Matthew Henry)
… -Testament dispensation, during which it had been winter time with the church. Christ’s gospel warms that which was cold, makes that fruitful which before …
2068 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 674.28 (Matthew Henry)
… dark dispensation, the day-spring from on high would at length visit them, to give light to those that sit in darkness. When the sun rises the shades of the night …
2069 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 677.16 (Matthew Henry)
… his dispensations towards his people. The ways of the Lord are equal; they are all mercy and truth; these are the pillars of marble, more lasting than the pillars …
2070 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 682.3 (Matthew Henry)
… any dispensation of divine grace but what we have in the gospel, Galatians 1:8, 1:9. 3. We are to look for the second coming of Jesus Christ at the end of time, as the …
2071 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 685.16 (Matthew Henry)
… these dispensations. His justice must be owned in bringing those low what exalted themselves; and herein he is glorified, [1.] As a God is irresistible power …
2072 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 693.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensations of his providence concerning those about them, Deuteronomy 32:8, 32:9. The threatenings we find here against Babylon, Moab, Damascus, Egypt …
2073 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 706.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensations of his providence; but they regard it not, and therefore study not to answer the ends of those dispensations. Even when we receive of the …
2074 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 721.12 (Matthew Henry)
… , in dispensing rewards and punishments,” Psalms 48:10. And again ( Isaiah 41:13 ) it is promised, 1. That God will strengthen their hands, that is, will help them: “ I will …
2075 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.18 (Matthew Henry)
… . The dispensations of his providence concerning her had been such that she had reason to think he was angry with her. She had provoked him to anger most bitterly …
2076 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensations of his providence concerning them, and so they do but make bad worse. This had long been Jerusalem’s woeful case, and God took cognizance …
2077 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 733.23 (Matthew Henry)
… this dispensation, and received the impressions of grief from his Father’s delivering him up; and he was troubled to such a degree that it put him into an agony …
2078 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 735.13 (Matthew Henry)
… are dispensed to us. He is the Mediator and trustee of the covenant; to him this is applied, Acts 13:34. They are the ta hosia (the word used there, and by the Septuagint …
2079 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 745.1 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation should bring in, and the separation that should by it be made between the precious and the vile. “For judgment” (says Christ) “have I come into …
2080 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 746.12 (Matthew Henry)
… glorious dispensation; but doubtless the prophecy looks further, to the judgment for which Christ did come once, and will come again, into this world, and to …