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2141 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 944.47 (Matthew Henry)
… be dispensed to the world; from Christ, as the original Author, by his ministers. What Christ designed for the churches he signified to his servant John ( Revelation …
2142 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 945.18 (Matthew Henry)
… to dispense with God’s law, do, in Christ’s account, repeal and disannul it. To break the law is bad, but to teach men so, as the scribes and Pharisees did, is much …
2143 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.6 (Matthew Henry)
… comfortable dispensation of the gospel. Now the word comes more nigh us ( Romans 10:8 ), and therefore the miracles do so, and do not oblige us to keep such a distance …
2144 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.69 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation; that is it about which the apostolical and ministerial power is wholly conversant. It is not any civil, secular power that is hereby …
2145 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.88 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s dispensations are either intricate or cross to us, it becomes us silently to acquiesce in, and not to prescribe to, the divine will; God knows what he has …
2146 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.116 (Matthew Henry)
… , to dispense rewards and punishments, infinitely exceeding the greatest that any earthly potentate has the dispensing of. The terror of men’s tribunal …
2147 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.27 (Matthew Henry)
… -Testament dispensation had tokens of God’s presence; but that was a dispensation of darkness, and terror, and bondage, this of light, love, and liberty.
2148 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 948.81 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation in it. The church is God’s family, it is his court; there he dwells, there he rules. God is our master; his servants we are, at least in profession …
2149 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 948.105 (Matthew Henry)
… be dispensed with for the gratifying of their unbridled passions; and so they curse themselves every time they say the Lord’s prayer.
2150 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 949.16 (Matthew Henry)
… God dispensed with divorces in some cases, without any impeachment of his holiness.
2151 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 949.17 (Matthew Henry)
… be dispensed with for the preservation of the law of nature, for God will have mercy and not sacrifice; but then those are hard-hearted wretches, who have made …
2152 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 949.22 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation of love and liberty, tenderness of heart may justly be expected among them, that they will not be hard-hearted, like Jews, for God has called us …
2153 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 950.3 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation. The laws of that kingdom are not wrapt up in parables, but plainly set down, as in the sermon upon the mount; but the mysteries of that kingdom …
2154 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 950.5 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation than the rejection of the Jews and the calling in of the Gentiles; so the apostle speaks of it ( Ephesians 3:3-3:6 ); that the Gentiles should …
2155 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 950.6 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation, great glory ( Matthew 19:28 ); but he now tells them that those who are in like manner faithful to him, even in the latter end of the world, shall …
2156 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 950.30 (Matthew Henry)
… in dispensing his gifts should silence our murmurings. If he will do it, it is not for us to gainsay; for he is in one mind, and who can turn him? Neither giveth he …
2157 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 950.31 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensations of his grace, God gives or withholds the means of grace, and the Spirit of grace, as he pleases. Not but that there is a counsel in every will …
2158 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 950.59 (Matthew Henry)
… , in dispensing the fruits of his own purchase, goes exactly by the measures of his Father’s purpose; It is not mine to give, save to them (so it may be read) for whom …
2159 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 953.12 (Matthew Henry)
… could dispense with that, but would not bate an ace of their own impositions, nor dispense with a failure in the least punctilio of them. They allowed no chancery …
2160 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 953.49 (Matthew Henry)
… they dispensed with, and made light of, and reckoned a man was not bound by to assert the truth, or perform a promise. They ought not to have sworn by the temple …