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225 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 3.18 (Matthew Henry)
… into the waters, to play therein, but to dress the garden and to keep it. Paradise itself was not a place of exemption from work. Note, here, (1.) We were none of us sent …
226 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 3.30 (Matthew Henry)
… to the day and night, to the firmament, to the earth, and to the sea; and he calleth the stars by their names, to show that he is the supreme Lord of these. But he gave …
227 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 4.56 (Matthew Henry)
… to the ground, not to the grave,—to the work-house, not to the dungeon, not to the prison-house,—to hold the plough, not to drag the chain. His tilling the ground would …
228 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 5.3 (Matthew Henry)
… man, the LORD, or at least a man from the LORD, and for his service as priest of the family, became an enemy to the LORD. The less we expect from creature s, the more …
229 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 15.8 (Matthew Henry)
… in the principles of religion; for Abram commanded his household to keep the way of the Lord. This shows that Abram was, 1. A great man, who had so many servants …
230 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.1 (Matthew Henry)
… have the great men of the world, but “this honour have all the saints.” The covenant to be settled between God and Abram was a covenant of promises; accordingly …
231 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.9 (Matthew Henry)
… down the hill apace; nay, I am going out of the world, going the way of all the earth. I die childless ,” so the LXX. “I leave the world, and leave no child behind me.” 3. That …
232 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.10 (Matthew Henry)
… their estates, God’s counsel shall stand. (2.) God is often better to us than our own fears, and gives the mercy we had long despaired of. 2. To affect him the more with …
233 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 19.20 (Matthew Henry)
… abhorred the wickedness of the Sodomites; he would not have lived among them, as Lot did, if they would have given him the best estate in their country; and yet …
234 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 25.3 (Matthew Henry)
… good estate to leave behind him, for the Lord had blessed him in all things; and the blessing of the Lord makes rich. See how much religion and piety befriend …
235 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 25.17 (Matthew Henry)
… proposal:—[1.] That his master Abraham, through the blessing of God, had a very good estate; and, [2.] That he had settled it all upon Isaac, for whom he was now a suitor …
236 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 25.21 (Matthew Henry)
… personal estate only: they do not question the truth of what this man said; but, [1.] They trust much to his integrity. It were well if honesty did so universally …
237 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 26.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the land of Canaan, and the entail of the covenant. Or, God having already made him the heir of the promise, Abraham therefore made him heir of his estate. Our …
238 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 29.20 (Matthew Henry)
… ; of the overplus they have only either the keeping or the giving, not the enjoyment: if God give us more, we are bound to be thankful, and to use it for him; if he give …
239 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 32.8 (Matthew Henry)
… . Thus the righteous God paid Jacob for his hard service out of Laban’s estate; as afterwards he paid the seed of Jacob for their serving the Egyptians, with …
240 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 32.22 (Matthew Henry)
… an estate secured to him by the promise of God himself; as it was also to give him his daughters without portions, when it was in the power of his hands to do well …