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2341 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 551.15 (Matthew Henry)
… them to Christ as their God, on Christ as their altar, which sanctifies every gift. Their conversion to God is called the offering up, or sacrificing, of the Gentiles …
2342 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 553.1 (Matthew Henry)
… delivered to the sons of Asaph, who were called by his name, for the public service of the church. That was the most eminent family of the singers in Ezra’s time …
2343 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 554.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of service, and must set themselves with diligence and application of mind to do the work to which they are called. He does not say, “ When I shall receive the congregation …
2344 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 560.4 (Matthew Henry)
… thus to call to mind their redemption out of Egypt, much more ought we, on the Christian sabbath, to call to mind a more glorious redemption wrought out for us …
2345 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 561.3 (Matthew Henry)
… so called both because they are great in power and might and because God is pleased to make use of their service in the government of this lower world; and magistrates …
2346 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 563.6 (Matthew Henry)
… wished to return to God’s tabernacles again, that there he might strengthen himself in the Lord his God for service and suffering. (2.) They are such as have a …
2347 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 563.9 (Matthew Henry)
… to be tied to this service for ever, to be more free to it, but never to go out free from it, preferring bonds to duty far before the greatest liberty to sin …
2348 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 567.12 (Matthew Henry)
… whom God designs for eminent services are prepared for them by exercises of this kind. [4.] His affliction was now extreme, and worse than ever. God’s terrors …
2349 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 569.1 (Matthew Henry)
… of God passed upon them, Psalms 90:7-90:11. IV. He commits himself and his people to God by prayer for divine mercy and grace, and the return of God’s favour, Psalms …
2350 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 570.11 (Matthew Henry)
… be serviceable to them, Psalms 91:11, 91:12. This is a precious promise, and speaks a great deal both of honour and comfort to the saints, nor is it ever the worse …
2351 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 571.2 (Matthew Henry)
… order to the work. 2. The proper work of the sabbath is praising God; every sabbath day must be a thanksgiving-day; and the other services of the day must be in order …
2352 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 574.6 (Matthew Henry)
… for, to his honour and service we are entirely devoted as a peculiar people, and therefore to him must be glory in the churches (whether it be in the world or no …
2353 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 575.4 (Matthew Henry)
… here called to sing unto the Lord; sing to the Father, to the Son, to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, when the morning stars sang together, is now, in the …
2354 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 577.4 (Matthew Henry)
… deliverance. God’s power and faithfulness, called here his right hand and his holy arm, brought relief to the Lord Jesus, in raising him from the dead, and exalting …
2355 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 578.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God, which they were also bound dutifully and conscientiously to attend to, Romans 9:4. And this they are called to do in this psalm, where yet there …
2356 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 579.2 (Matthew Henry)
… answered to. But, if we take the foregoing psalm to be (as we have opened it) a call to the Jewish church to rejoice in the administration of God’s kingdom, which …
2357 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 582.17 (Matthew Henry)
… others to praise God, and here, in the close, he calls upon the angels to do it; not as if they needed any excitement of ours to praise God, they do it continually …
2358 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 583.10 (Matthew Henry)
… nature call for something to support it, and repair its daily decays? Here is bread, which strengthens man’s heart, and is therefore called the staff of life …
2359 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 583.15 (Matthew Henry)
… not to answer the room it takes up; yet God has appointed it its place and made it serviceable to man both for navigation ( there go the ships, in which goods are …
2360 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 584.17 (Matthew Henry)
… instructed to execute judgment will find their remissness construed as a rebellion against God’s word. The plagues of Egypt are here called God’s signs …