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2221 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 900.8 (Matthew Henry)
… ; the legal sacrifices had their virtue and value from the institution, and the reference they had to Christ the great propitiation; but otherwise, of themselves …
2222 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 911.3 (Matthew Henry)
… a legal way is not broken off, and therefore we ought not to proceed, though there be a present connivance of authority.” Note, There is an aptness in us to misinterpret …
2223 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 931.4 (Matthew Henry)
… can legally prove himself to be a son of Abraham; however, it is certain that none can prove himself to either a son of Aaron or a son of David, so that the priestly …
2224 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 932.50 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal Nazarites were a type and figure (especially Samson, Judges 13:5 ), and Joseph, who is called a Nazarite among his brethren ( Genesis 49:26 ), and to whom that …
2225 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.77 (Matthew Henry)
… a legal instrument in writing, attested by witnesses; if he will dissolve the matrimonial bond, let him do it solemnly.” Thus the law had prevented rash and hasty …
2226 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.103 (Matthew Henry)
… for legal processes to be made use of for the doing of greatest injuries. Though judges be just and circumspect, yet it is possible for bad men who make no conscience …
2227 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 938.12 (Matthew Henry)
… a legal proof, both that thou wast before a leper, and art now thoroughly cleansed.” Christ would have his miracles to appear in their full light and evidence …
2228 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 939.12 (Matthew Henry)
… a legal righteousness, and placed their confidence in that, and made no great matter of the forgiveness of sin, the doctrine upon which Christ hereby designed …
2229 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.79 (Matthew Henry)
… -duties, legally imposed, are to be paid, notwithstanding church-corruptions. We must take care not to use our liberty as a cloak of covetousness or maliciousness …
2230 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 954.105 (Matthew Henry)
… and legal process; death and judgment will seize upon all we have, to our irreparable damage and utter undoing. Therefore be ready, be ye also ready; as ready …
2231 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 954.125 (Matthew Henry)
… sufficient legal notice given, whether taken or no; and no unfairness can be charged on Christ, if he come suddenly, without giving other notice. Behold, he has …
2232 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 956.52 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal sacrifices of propitiation being summed up in the death of Christ, and so abolished, all the legal feasts of rejoicing were summed up in this sacrament …
2233 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 958.14 (Matthew Henry)
… and legal discharge, obtained from heaven; he did not break prison, but an officer was sent on purpose to roll away the stone, and so to open the prison door, which …
2234 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 958.60 (Matthew Henry)
… was legally entitled to it, and invested in it, by a grant from him who is the Fountain of all being, and consequently of all power. God set him King ( Psalms 2:6 ), inaugurated …
2235 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 969.20 (Matthew Henry)
… a legal mission, that he was not duly ordained, though he was ever so well qualified, and preached ever so profitably and well, they would tell the people that …
2236 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 974.6 (Matthew Henry)
… and legal discharge, by which it appealed that his satisfaction was accepted for all the purposes for which it was intended, and the matter in dispute was …
2237 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.121 (Matthew Henry)
… a legal spirit; a spirit of bondage, but with the boldness of an evangelical spirit, a spirit of adoption. 2. To serve him in holiness and righteousness, which …
2238 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.46 (Matthew Henry)
… , the legal right was transferred to Salathiel, who was of the house of Nathan, another son of David, which line Luke here pursues, and so leaves out all the kings …
2239 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 994.23 (Matthew Henry)
… a legal worthiness, upon account of any thing in them or done by them, but an evangelical worthiness, upon account of the inestimable price which Christ paid …
2240 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 996.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal feasts (which fell of course with the passover) for the evangelical ones, both spiritual and sacramental; so may good Christians, when they are called …