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2721 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 584.18 (Matthew Henry)
… their bodies and spirits broken by their bondage; and yet, when God brought them forth, there was not one feeble person, none sick, none so much as sickly, among …
2722 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 586.1 (Matthew Henry)
… his church in particular, here observes some of the instances of his providential care of the children of men in general, especially in their distresses …
2723 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the body, while the soul prospers and is in health, than, like Israel, to have leanness sent into the soul, while the body is feasted. 5. He was ridiculed and reproached …
2724 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 600.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the church in general is engaged for the preservation of every particular believer, the same wisdom, the same power, the same promises. He that keepeth Israel …
2725 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 608.5 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s church wither of themselves, and stay not till they are rooted out by the judgments of God. 2. It is of no use to any body; nor are they any thing but the unprofitable …
2726 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 628.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , the body of the church ( Psalms 149:2 ), the children of Zion particularly, the inhabitants of that holy hill, who are nearer to God than other Israelites; those …
2727 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 674.12 (Matthew Henry)
… -Testament church while it was in expectation of the coming of the Messiah. The ceremonial law is called a wall of partition ( Ephesians 2:14 ), a veil ( 2 Corinthians …
2728 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 674.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the churches had rest, then were they edified, Acts 9:31. [3.] To the conversion of sinners from a state of nature to a state of grace. That blessed change is like the …
2729 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 676.15 (Matthew Henry)
… his church, between Christ and every true believer. Christ calls his church his spouse, and his calling her so makes her so. “I have betrothed thee unto me for …
2730 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 679.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the church are reckoned from foot to head, that, as the apostle speaks, when he is comparing the church, as here, to the natural body ( 1 Corinthians 12:23 ), more abundant …
2731 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 680.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of the first-born, when time and days shall be no more: Let the blessed Jesus hasten that blessed day. Why are his chariot-wheels so long a coming? Why …
2732 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 681.13 (Matthew Henry)
… true church. Christ’s is a little flock. (3.) It is God’s work to sanctify and save some, when others are left to perish in their impurity. It is the work of his power …
2733 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 682.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the body of that nation, against whom an irreversible doom was passed, that they should be wholly cut off and their church quite dismantled, never to be formed …
2734 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 685.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , the body of the people, incorporated in one church and commonwealth), and what by the vines, the pleasant plants, the plants of God’s pleasure, which he had been …
2735 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 692.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, of the Jewish church when God would work great deliverances for them, and of the Christian church when the kingdom of the Messiah should be set …
2736 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 705.7 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel church is the Jerusalem that is above; there this feast is made, and to it all the invited guests must go. 4. The provision is very rich, and every thing is …
2737 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 706.22 (Matthew Henry)
… dead bodies at the last day, as Job did, and the prophet here, that will facilitate our belief of the promised restoration of the church’s lustre and strength …
2738 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 707.3 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s church ( Isaiah 27:1 ), tribulation to those that trouble it, 2 Thessalonians 1:6. When the Lord comes out of his place, to punish the inhabitants of the earth …
2739 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 707.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of God in the world shall be a growing body, and come at length to be a great body ( Isaiah 27:6 ): In times to come (so some read it), in after-times, when these …
2740 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 707.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the church; and the great trumpet of all will gather the saints together, to serve God day and night in his temple .