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2521 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 879.23 (Matthew Henry)
… whom God raised up for extraordinary services; but now the Spirit shall be poured out plentifully in a full stream, as was promised with an eye to gospel-times …
2522 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 880.13 (Matthew Henry)
… given to all the enemies of God’s kingdom to do their worst. To signify to them that God is preparing war against them, they are called upon to prepare war against …
2523 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 882.6 (Matthew Henry)
… commissioned to make known the mind of God to them, to show them what is pleasing to God and what displeasing, to reprove them for their faults and warn them …
2524 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.2 (Matthew Henry)
… God has a mouth to speak we must have an ear to hear; it is our duty, it is our interest, yet so stupid are most men that they need to be again and again called upon …
2525 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 888.8 (Matthew Henry)
… in God’s sanctuary as a fish upon dry ground. Note, Those are strangers to God, and enemies to themselves, that love market days better than sabbath days, that …
2526 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 889.7 (Matthew Henry)
… are to God as children of the Ethiopians; he rejects them, and their services.
2527 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 891.12 (Matthew Henry)
… his calling, that was his occupation, that was it that he made a business of: “ I fear the Lord Jehovah; that is the God I worship, the God I pray to, even the God of heaven …
2528 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 892.11 (Matthew Henry)
… to it as to be able to call it their own, if they would but keep close to God and their duty. Those that think to go any where to be from under the eye of God, as Jonah …
2529 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 893.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , saying to us, Now return to the duties which before you neglected, and which by these providences you are called to. God now said, in effect, to Jonah, as Christ …
2530 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 893.17 (Matthew Henry)
… of God he called upon the inferior creatures to join with him therein, so when the Ninevites were full of sorrow for sin, and dread of God’s judgments, they would …
2531 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 895.6 (Matthew Henry)
… gods cast into the fire, for they were no gods ( Isaiah 37:19 ); and this was the Lord’s doing: I will lay the idols desolate. Note, If the law of God prevail not to make …
2532 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 896.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God, and our generation, let it never be said that we left that to be done to-morrow which we could do to-day. 5. They stick at nothing to compass their …
2533 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 896.7 (Matthew Henry)
… to speak in God’s name?” Note, It is an honour and privilege to be named of the house of Jacob. Thou art called a Jew, Romans 2:17. But, when those who are called by …
2534 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 900.3 (Matthew Henry)
… ever to his service. Or they may refer to the controversy now pleaded between God and Israel; let them remember God’s many favours to them and their fathers …
2535 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 902.17 (Matthew Henry)
… his service, to his honour; and now that the deliverance is wrought they are called upon to perform their vows; the promise they had then made must now be made …
2536 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 903.5 (Matthew Henry)
… course to make his best of the opportunity to escape; they shall not so much as look back to see who calls for them. Note, God can dispirit the strongest and boldest …
2537 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 910.13 (Matthew Henry)
… God with one consent, with one shoulder (so the word is), alluding to oxen in the yoke, that draw even. When Christians are unanimous in the service of God the …
2538 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 911.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s word. He was a man that had been eminently useful in his day, and serviceable to the interest of the church, yet did not plead his former merits in answer …
2539 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 912.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God shall receive fresh encouragements from him to proceed in it, as their case calls for them. Set the wheels a going, and God will oil them.
2540 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 912.14 (Matthew Henry)
… . Note, God has given to his ministers diversities of gifts, and calls them out to do diversities of services, so that they have need one of another, should make …