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2761 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 775.11 (Matthew Henry)

… the church do not come in our time, it is sufficient that it will come in God’s time, and we are sure that that is the best time. The promise is that God will visit …

2762 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 776.3 (Matthew Henry)

… the church may last long, they shall not last always. Salvation belongs to the Lord, and shall be wrought for his church. (2.) Jacob’s troublers shall be disabled …

2763 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 778.19 (Matthew Henry)

… the church that it will be said, The governor of the world is entirely taken up with the care of his church. [7.] These promises shall as surely be performed as the …

2764 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.2 (Matthew Henry)

… the church’s prosecutors, that is bent against her sons, Lamentations 3:12. He has set me as a mark for his arrow, which he aims at, and will be sure to hit, and then …

2765 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 802.16 (Matthew Henry)

… the body, and we know not how soon their case may be ours. But those who please themselves in the calamities of God’s church must expect to have their doom, as …

2766 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 804.18 (Matthew Henry)

… their bodies, the spiritual bodies they assumed. The clothes that cover us are our hindrance in work; angels need no other covering than their own wings, which …

2767 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 827.15 (Matthew Henry)

… . Christ’s church, that is his spouse, should be ours too. Though this people were very corrupt, and had themselves profaned the sanctuary, yet it is called the …

2768 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 831.16 (Matthew Henry)

… gospel-church been ever quite free from pricking briers and grieving thorns; yet sometimes the church has rest, and believers always dwell safely under …

2769 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 837.8 (Matthew Henry)

… the churches have rest and liberty, then this promise has a further accomplishment.

2770 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 837.12 (Matthew Henry)

… the church as Christ himself must come to deliver it from, Ezekiel 34:23. They devoured widows’ houses, took away the key of knowledge, corrupted the pure water …

2771 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 840.3 (Matthew Henry)

… the body at the great day, especially the bodies of believers that shall rise to life eternal.

2772 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 840.11 (Matthew Henry)

… gospel church, their becoming one fold under Christ the one great Shepherd, is doubtless the union that is chiefly looked at in this prophecy. By Christ and …

2773 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 840.14 (Matthew Henry)

… the church is Jacob, his servant too; and the members of the church shall come in for a share, as born in God’s house. He will make a covenant of peace with them ( Ezekiel …

2774 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 842.8 (Matthew Henry)

… God’s church and people, that they are invited to. They had accounted the Israel of God as sheep for the slaughter, and now they shall themselves be so accounted …

2775 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 843.6 (Matthew Henry)

… gospel-church was exalted above that of the Old Testament, and when we go to worship God we must ascend; so is the call, Revelation 4:1. Come up hither. Sursum corda …

2776 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 844.2 (Matthew Henry)

… mystical body the church, which is called the house of God ( 1 Timothy 3:15 ), and all the members of that body, which are living temples, in which the Spirit dwells …

2777 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 853.22 (Matthew Henry)

… Christian church, of the reformation, was a head of gold; but we live in an age that is iron and clay. Some allude to this in the description of a hypocrite, whose …

2778 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 858.8 (Matthew Henry)

… mortal bodies. And thus God deals with his church’s enemies; sometimes he breaks the teeth of them ( Psalms 3:7 ), when he does not break the neck of them, crushes …

2779 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 858.14 (Matthew Henry)

… a church in it. He shall think to change times and laws, to abolish all the ordinances and institutions of religion, and to bring every body to say and do just …

2780 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.2 (Matthew Henry)

… the church, whose mouth he was to God, and for whose use the oracles of God were committed to him, relating to the days of the Messiah. Observe, 1. When it was that …