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2501 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 857.13 (Matthew Henry)
… God, has thy God whom thou servest made it to appear that he is able to deliver thee from the lions ? If he rightly understood himself when he called him the …
2502 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 857.18 (Matthew Henry)
… only to tremble and fear before this God, but to love him and trust in him, to forsake the service of their idols, and to worship him only, and call upon him as Daniel …
2503 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 859.10 (Matthew Henry)
… he called himself)-- the illustrious, but others called him Antiochus Epimanes — Antiochus the furious. He is called here (as before, Daniel 7:8 ), a little horn, because …
2504 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 859.23 (Matthew Henry)
… , for to them it would be both most intelligible and most serviceable. Note, What we know of the things of God should be carefully laid up, that hereafter, when …
2505 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.11 (Matthew Henry)
… :18 ), to make it to appear that thou art a merciful God.” The good things we ask of God we call mercies, because we expect them purely from God’s mercy. And, because …
2506 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.30 (Matthew Henry)
… do God a real service, and man a real kindness, must be the destruction of this. Christ undertakes to be so, and for this purpose he is manifested, to destroy the …
2507 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 862.2 (Matthew Henry)
… three to be Cyrus, Artaxasta or Artaxerxes, called by the Greeks Cambyses, and Ahasuerus that married Esther, called Darius son of Hystaspes. To these three …
2508 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 862.8 (Matthew Henry)
… reason to bless God for the human learning with which many have done great service to divine truths.
2509 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 862.18 (Matthew Henry)
… put to the torture, and put to death, by his rage. Though they are so excellent and intelligent themselves, and so useful and serviceable to others, yet Antiochus …
2510 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 865.5 (Matthew Henry)
… resolution to go on in it. See the folly of idolaters, to call those their lovers that had not so much as life; yet let us learn to call our God our lover; let us keep …
2511 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 866.7 (Matthew Henry)
… -service. Desolate indeed is their condition that are shut out from communion with God, that have no opportunity of directing their addresses to God by sacrifice …
2512 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 866.8 (Matthew Henry)
… called Lord ( Psalms 110:1 ), and to whom God gave the throne of his father David, Luke 1:32. The Chaldee reads it, They shall seek the service of the Lord their God, and …
2513 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 868.14 (Matthew Henry)
… pains to go about to creatures, who can do them no service. Those who repent not that they have offended God by their sins are loth to be beholden to him in their …
2514 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.25 (Matthew Henry)
… cry to God, because their hearts were not right with him, not subjected to his will, devoted to his honour, nor employed in his service. To pray is to lift up the …
2515 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 871.19 (Matthew Henry)
… own to excuse themselves from the obligation of all God’s moral precepts. But how did they speed? [1.] God makes no reckoning of their services: The Lord accepts …
2516 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 872.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , says God, Leviticus 25:23. They had used it, or abused it rather, as if it had been their own, had not paid the rent, nor done the services, due to God as their landlord …
2517 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 873.12 (Matthew Henry)
… husbandman’s calling. If they would not be brought into bondage by their oppressors, let them return to God’s service. (1.) Let them break up the fallow ground …
2518 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 874.3 (Matthew Henry)
… . When God demanded Israel’s discharge from Pharaoh he called them his son, his first-born. Note, Those whom God loves he calls out of the bondage of sin and Satan …
2519 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 874.16 (Matthew Henry)
… to preach the gospel to the dispersed children of Israel, the children of God that were scattered abroad. And then observe, 1. How they were to be called and brought …
2520 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 875.19 (Matthew Henry)
… title to them and to their service. (2.) He preserved them, as sheep are kept by the shepherd’s care. He preserved them from Pharaoh’s rage at the sea, even at the …