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2121 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 933.9 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation of the covenant of grace, the opening of the kingdom of heaven to all believers, by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is a kingdom …
2122 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 933.40 (Matthew Henry)
… present dispensation, and therefore Jesus will now be baptized with water; but his baptizing with the Holy Ghost is reserved for hereafter, many days hence …
2123 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 934.61 (Matthew Henry)
… various dispensations; the commands the same, and the reasons to enforce them the same; an angel from heaven dares not preach any other gospel ( Galatians 1 …
2124 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 934.84 (Matthew Henry)
… that dispensation, though from God; but the miracles that Christ wrought, were most of them cures, and all of them (except the cursing of the barren fig tree) blessings …
2125 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.10 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation of life, to allure us to Christ, in whom alone all good is to be had. And those who had seen the gracious cures wrought by his hand ( Matthew 4:23, 4:24 …
2126 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.113 (Matthew Henry)
… are dispensed indifferently to good and evil, just and unjust; so that we cannot know love and hatred by what is before us, but by what is within us; not by the shining …
2127 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 939.37 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensations of his providence concerning us; there are times when the Lord God calls to weeping and mourning; regard is likewise to be had to any special …
2128 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 941.23 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s dispensations lies in their mutual connection and coherence, and the reference they have one to another. That which advanced John above the Old-Testament …
2129 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 941.25 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation in the perfection of its power and purity; and ho mikroteros— he that is less in that is greater than John. Some understand it of Christ …
2130 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 941.30 (Matthew Henry)
… Testament dispensation began to die, Matthew 11:13. So long that ministration continued in full force and virtue, but then it began to decline. Though the obligation …
2131 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 941.58 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensation of the Spirit, have advantages not inferior to those of Chorazin, and Bethsaida, and Capernaum, and the account in the great day will be accordingly …
2132 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 941.67 (Matthew Henry)
… .) This dispensation must be resolved into the divine sovereignty. Christ himself referred it to that; Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. Christ …
2133 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 941.68 (Matthew Henry)
… of dispensing divine grace is to be acknowledged by us, as it was by our Lord Jesus, with all thankfulness. We must thank God, [1.] That these things are revealed …
2134 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.11 (Matthew Henry)
… be dispensed with in a case of distress; much more might the tradition of the elders be dispensed with. Note, That may be done in a case of necessity which may …
2135 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.16 (Matthew Henry)
… , or dispensed with, as he sees good. It was by the Son that God made the world, and by him he instituted the sabbath in innocency; by him he gave the ten commandments …
2136 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.58 (Matthew Henry)
… glorious dispensation of the kingdom of God, which has been long expected, is now commenced; slight it at your peril.” Note, [1.] The destruction of the devil’s power …
2137 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.66 (Matthew Henry)
… this dispensation of the Spirit, cannot possibly be brought to believe in Christ; those who shall impute them to a collusion with Satan, as the Pharisees did …
2138 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.67 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensation of gospel grace, which is often in scripture called the world to come, shall there be any pardon to such as tread underfoot the blood of the …
2139 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 943.12 (Matthew Henry)
… in dispensing his gifts; he bestows them on those who improve them, but takes them away from those who bury them. It is a rule among men, that they will rather entrust …
2140 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 943.24 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensation they are under. Though they were the favourites of heaven, with whom God’s secret was, yet they have not seen the things which they desired …