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2481 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.13 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom?” destructions by wholesale, in which he thinks Job may, as in a glass, see his own face. Observe, 1. The ruin of those sinners ( Job 22:16 ): They were cut down out …
2482 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.26 (Matthew Henry)
… guilty Sodom that wanted the benefit of Abraham’s intercession), I incline to the marginal reading, The innocent shall deliver the island, by their advice …
2483 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom is a strange punishment. Isa. there not alienation (so some read it) to the workers of iniquity ? This is the sinfulness of the sin that it alienates the …
2484 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom, which was intended for an example to those who should afterwards, in like manner, live ungodly.
2485 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.26 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom if Lot alone had not entertained them. Perhaps by that instance Job was taught (as we are, Hebrews 13:2 ) not to be forgetful to entertain strangers. He …
2486 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 474.2 (Matthew Henry)
… it. Sodom and Gomorrah were laid in ruins by it. It is a sensible indication of what God could do to this sinful world, and what he will do, at last, by the fire to which …
2487 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 480.8 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom; they cumber the ground. 2. In particular, whereas the righteous are like valuable, useful, fruitful trees, they are like the chaff which the wind drives …
2488 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 490.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom and Gomorrah, and very fitly, for that destruction was intended for a figure of the vengeance of eternal fire, Jude 1:7. The fire of God’s wrath, fastening …
2489 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 491.8 (Matthew Henry)
… as Sodom and there is none to check or control them. Bad men are base men, the vilest of men, and they are so though they are ever so highly exalted in this world …
2490 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 524.18 (Matthew Henry)
… to Sodom.” When Abraham, in obedience to God’s call, had quitted his native soil, he was not so much as mindful of the country whence he came out. This shows, [1.] How …
2491 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 553.15 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom came up before God, calling for vengeance, Genesis 18:21. It increases continually (so we read it); they grow worse and worse, and are hardened in their …
2492 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 586.13 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom became a salt sea. Note, If the land be bad, it is because the inhabitants are so. Justly is the ground made unfruitful to those that bring not forth fruit …
2493 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 599.8 (Matthew Henry)
… in Sodom; 2 Peter 2:8 ); to dwell long with such is grievous indeed, for they are thorns, vexing, and scratching, and tearing, and they will show the old enmity that …
2494 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 607.6 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom, but good fruit. (2.) The children shall be as olive plants, likely in time to be olive-trees, and, though wild by nature, yet grafted into the good olive, and …
2495 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 619.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom; nay, as in the deluge the waters from above, and those from beneath, met for the drowning of the world, both the windows of heaven were opened and the fountains …
2496 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 636.5 (Matthew Henry)
… filthy Sodom was abundance of idleness, Ezekiel 16:49. He went in a starched stately manner, so (it is said) the word signifies. He appeared to be a nice formal fop …
2497 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 641.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom, which look fair, but touch them and they go to dust. 2. That the prosperity of the righteous has a good bottom and will endure. Death will remove them, but …
2498 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 650.16 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom, when they are said to have their portion in fire and brimstone. Or in the congregation of the damned, that are under the power of the second death. There …
2499 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 673.15 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom; and they would not let me keep my own vineyard,[ 78f1 /I] serve my own God, and observe those pure worships which he gave me in charge, and which I do and ever …
2500 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 681.13 (Matthew Henry)
… like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect both of sin and ruin, had grown almost so bad that there could not have been found ten righteous men among them, and almost …