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2163 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 236.2 (Matthew Henry)
… , a legal claim upon Boaz. It was customary for widows to assert this claim, Deuteronomy 25:5-10. But this is not recorded for imitation in other times, and is not …
2164 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 237.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and legal manner. This kinsman, when he heard the conditions of the bargain, refused it. In like manner many are shy of the great redemption; they are not willing …
2165 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 307.2 (Matthew Henry)
… , one legal, the other by the gospel. Legal is, when men do all things required in the law, and that by themselves. None ever thus fulfilled the law but Christ, and …
2166 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 313.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of legal process. Let us, from this sad story, be amazed at the wickedness of the wicked, and the power of Satan in the children of disobedience. Let us commit the …
2167 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 933.3 (Matthew Henry)
… their legal ceremonies. Others of them were detestable hypocrites, making their pretences to holiness a cloak for iniquity. The Sadducees ran into the opposite …
2168 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1082.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal dispensation. But even the New Testament will be a killing letter, if shown as a mere system or form, and without dependence on God the Holy Spirit …
2169 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1096.1 (Matthew Henry)
… to legal observances for justification. (1-7) The happy change made in the Gentile believers. (8-11) The apostle reasons against following false teachers. (12 …
2170 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1096.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , and legal and evangelical professors, are shadowed forth. Works and fruits brought forth in a man's own strength, are legal. But if arising from faith in Christ …
2171 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1110.1 (Matthew Henry)
… against legal ordinances. (18-23)
2172 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1141.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal dispensation under which the church so long remained. The better covenant brought the church and every believer into clearer light, more perfect …
2173 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 80.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal dispensation (as the learned bishop Patrick notes); for the sins of the priests themselves could not be taken away by those sacrifices, but they must …
2174 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 99.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal sacrifices, which, because they could not take away sin, were often repeated ( Hebrews 10:1, 10:2 ), but were here repeated seven times (a number of perfection …
2175 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 104.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal priesthood, that the priest could only convict the leper (for by the law is the knowledge of sin), but Christ can cure the leper, he can take away sin. Lord …
2176 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 107.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal sacrifices; they were so far from taking away sin that even they left some stain upon those that touched them. 6. When all this was done, the high priest …
2177 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 107.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal sacrifices to take away sin, and purge the conscience from it, that in them there was a remembrance made of sin every year, upon the day of atonement …
2178 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 110.13 (Matthew Henry)
… is legally entitled to, nor let his poverty excuse him from any just punishment for a fault. Or, 2. In veneration or fear of the mighty, in whose favour judges would …
2179 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 113.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal sacrifices the fitter to be types of Christ, the great sacrifice from which all these derived their virtue. In allusion to this law, he is said to be …
2180 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 116.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal restoration of every Israelite to all the property, and all the liberty, which had been alienated from him since the last jubilee; so that never was …