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2641 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1031.41 (Matthew Henry)
… called abroad upon any service, when he has fulfilled that ministry, he ought to remember that he has work to do at home, which wants him there and calls him …
2642 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.4 (Matthew Henry)
… teachers, to preside in their respective assemblies, and to deliver God’s mind to them. Barnabas is first named, probably because he was the eldest, and Saul …
2643 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.6 (Matthew Henry)
… his services, inclined to it, and taken off from other cares inconsistent with it. There are some whom the Holy Ghost has separated for the service of Christ …
2644 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , pursuant to these orders: not to the ministry in general (Barnabas and Saul had both of them been ministers long before this), but to a particular service in …
2645 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.36 (Matthew Henry)
… public service, and, by an immediate impulse upon their spirits, called to it, pro re nata—as the occasion required. Though they were a provoking people, and were …
2646 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.50 (Matthew Henry)
… , and calling him to, a public station, he served his own generation; for every creature is that to us which God makes it to be. David was a great blessing to the age …
2647 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.70 (Matthew Henry)
… world to suffer ill for doing well, to be persecuted instead of being preferred for the good services they have done to mankind. Observe, (1.) What method the Jews …
2648 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , nor called in the extra-ordinary manner that Paul was, because set apart by special designation of the Holy Ghost to the service of the Gentiles. It seems, this …
2649 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the gods ( Acts 14:12 ): They called Barnabas Jupiter; for, if they will have him to be a god, it is as easy to make him the prince of their gods as not. It is probable that …
2650 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.15 (Matthew Henry)
… were called the ambassadors of Christ, and the stewards of the mysteries of God, than when they were called Jupiter and Mercury. Let us see how they prevented …
2651 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.23 (Matthew Henry)
… nations to walk in their own ways. These idolaters, that were called from the service of other gods, might think, “Have we not served these gods hitherto, and our …
2652 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.24 (Matthew Henry)
… witness to us that we ought to make our acknowledgments not to the creatures who are made serviceable to us, but to the Creator who makes them so. He left not …
2653 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.48 (Matthew Henry)
… ways serviceable one to another; and therefore should be forward both to borrow and lend assistance. Two are better than one. Every soldier has his comrade …
2654 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.51 (Matthew Henry)
… Peter calls his son, 1 Peter 5:13. (2.) Silas who was a new hand, and never yet employed in that work, nor intended to be, but to return to the service of the church at Jerusalem …
2655 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.1 (Matthew Henry)
… brethren to the grace of God, so his services for Christ after this are largely recorded; we are to attend him in this chapter from place to place, wherever he …
2656 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.38 (Matthew Henry)
… to God. (1.) They prayed together, prayed to God to support them and comfort them in their afflictions, to visit them, as he did Joseph in the prison, and to be …
2657 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1036.19 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s name, to correct their disorders in religion, and to turn them from the service of idols, and of Satan in them, to the service of the true and living God in …
2658 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.3 (Matthew Henry)
… example to those who are going to service to seek for those services in which they may have the best help for their souls. Choose to work with those that are …
2659 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.18 (Matthew Henry)
… men to worship God contrary to the law. They could not charge him with persuading men not to worship God at all, or to worship other gods ( Deuteronomy 13:2 ): but …
2660 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.25 (Matthew Henry)
… burdensome to him in his journey, but because they might be serviceable to the interests of the gospel at Ephesus. Paul intended shortly to settle there for …