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2481 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 …
2482 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 …
2483 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 …
2484 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 …
2485 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 …
2486 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 …
2487 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 …
2488 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 …
2489 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 …
2490 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 …
2491 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 …
2492 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 …
2493 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 …
2494 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 681.14 (Matthew Henry)
… like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of ruin ( Isaiah 1:9 ), because that had made themselves like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of sin. The men of Sodom were wicked …
2495 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 681.16 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom and people of Gomorrah, brought, not to the altars of false gods (they are not here charged with that), but to the altar of the God of Israel, sacrifices …
2496 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 683.13 (Matthew Henry)
… as Sodom, so impetuous, so imperious, are their lusts, and so impatient of the least check, and so perfectly are all the remaining sparks of virtue extinguished …
2497 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 684.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom and perhaps thought it reached further than it did) that in a little time there would be none left ( Genesis 19:31 ),—that whereas women naturally hate …
2498 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 685.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom, Deuteronomy 32:32. 1. Wild grapes are the fruits of the corrupt nature, fruit according to the crabstock, not according to the engrafted branch, from …
2499 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 693.15 (Matthew Henry)
… , like Sodom and Gomorrah; not so miraculously, nor so suddenly, but as effectually, though gradually; and the destruction should come upon them as that upon …
2500 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 695.8 (Matthew Henry)
… from Sodom’s flames and which was spared for his sake. They shall make as great a noise with their cry as a heifer of three years old does when she goes lowing …