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2281 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1091.1 (Matthew Henry)
… this dispensation, 2 Corinthians 12:1-12:10. Then he addresses himself to the Corinthians, blaming them for what was faulty among them, and giving a large account …
2282 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1091.9 (Matthew Henry)
… this dispensation: He gloried in his infirmities ( 2 Corinthians 12:9 ), and took pleasure in them, 2 Corinthians 12:10. He does not mean his sinful infirmities …
2283 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.12 (Matthew Henry)
… sometimes dispense with the use of the ceremonial law, and live after the manner of the Gentiles, this showed that he did not look upon the observance of it …
2284 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.15 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation should take place, when Jews and Gentiles, without distinction, should, upon believing, become the seed of Abraham. The law was added because …
2285 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.18 (Matthew Henry)
… better dispensation he was to introduce, whereby they were to be freed from bondage and servitude, and brought into a state of greater light and liberty. Now …
2286 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.19 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation of darkness and terror, yet it furnished them with sufficient means and helps both to direct them in their duty to God and to encourage their …
2287 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.24 (Matthew Henry)
… that dispensation, it must needs follow that they were very unreasonable and unwise, in hearkening to those who at once endeavoured to deprive them of the …
2288 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1096.3 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation of grace, and yet it was comparatively a dispensation of darkness; for as the heir, in his minority, is under tutors and governors till the time …
2289 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1096.4 (Matthew Henry)
… -dispensation, Galatians 4:4-4:7. When the fulness of time had come, the time appointed of the Father, when he would put an end to the legal dispensation, and …
2290 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1096.10 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation of light, liberty, and love, as that of the gospel is, should now submit to a dispensation of darkness, and bondage, and terror, as that of the law …
2291 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1096.19 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation of grace, yet, in comparison of the gospel state, was a dispensation of bondage, and became more so to the Jews, through their mistake of the design …
2292 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1097.5 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel dispensation, neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision. Though, while the legal state lasted, there was a difference put between …
2293 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1098.17 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian dispensation, neither circumcision availed any thing nor uncircumcision, as to men’s acceptance with God, but a new creature. Here he instructs …
2294 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1098.19 (Matthew Henry)
… appointed dispenser of it; and though these churches had done enough to forfeit it, by suffering themselves to be drawn into an opinion and practice highly …
2295 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1099.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensation, and prudence in executing the counsel of his will, as he has done. How illustrious have the divine wisdom and prudence rendered themselves …
2296 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1100.9 (Matthew Henry)
… he dispensing his blessings and favours to them. Thus the building, for the nature of it, is a temple, a holy temple; for the church is the place which God hath chosen …
2297 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1101.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of dispensing the gospel.
2298 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1101.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensation of this grace given to him; he means as he was authorized and commissioned by God to dispense the doctrine of the gospel, which commission …
2299 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1101.7 (Matthew Henry)
… wisely dispenses things, or of his wisdom manifested in the many ways and methods he takes in ordering his church in the several ages of it, and especially …
2300 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1102.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of dispensation; that is, that they might dispense the doctrines of the gospel, and successfully discharge the several parts of their ministerial function …