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2801 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 932.26 (Matthew Henry)
… the church his body, agree in saying, Many a time have they afflicted me, from my youth up. Pharaoh’s cruelty fastens upon the Hebrews’ children, and a great red …
2802 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 936.80 (Matthew Henry)
… the churches, and Timothy’s care for the state of souls, 2 Corinthians 11:28, 2:20 .
2803 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 940.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the church’s crown ( Revelation 12:1 ): the twelve foundations of the new Jerusalem ( Revelation 21:12, 21:14 ), typified by the twelve precious stones in Aaron’s …
2804 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.90 (Matthew Henry)
… the body of the Jewish church and nation: So shall it be with this wicked generation, that now resist, and will finally reject, the gospel of Christ. The devil …
2805 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.91 (Matthew Henry)
… and churches, to take heed of leaving their first love, of letting fall a good work of reformation begun among them, and returning to that wickedness which …
2806 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 943.1 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel church should be very small at first, but that in process of time it should become a considerable body: that of the grain of mustard-seed ( Matthew 13:31 …
2807 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 944.31 (Matthew Henry)
… the church did for Peter’s, Acts 12:5. They had free access to him in prison, which was a comfort to them, but they wished to see him at liberty, that he might preach …
2808 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.54 (Matthew Henry)
… that body politic is incorporated. Such is the communion between Christ and the church, the Bridegroom and the spouse. God had a church in the world from the …
2809 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.57 (Matthew Henry)
… his church upon a rock. This body politic is incorporated by the style and title of Christ’s church. It is a number o the children of men called out of the world …
2810 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.63 (Matthew Henry)
… my church .” Perhaps he laid his hand on his breast, as when he said, Destroy this temple ( John 2:19 ), when he spoke of the temple of his body. Then he took occasion from …
2811 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 953.81 (Matthew Henry)
We have left the blind leaders fallen into the ditch, under Christ’s sentence, into the damnation of hell; let us see what will become of the blind followers, of the body of the Jewish church, and particularly Jerusalem.
2812 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 953.95 (Matthew Henry)
… whole body of the Jewish nation into the church, and so gathered them all (as the Jews used to speak of proselytes) under the wings of the Divine Majesty. It is …
2813 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 954.70 (Matthew Henry)
… his church after the preaching of the gospel to all the world. We read not of any of the ordinances of the Jewish church, which were purely ceremonial, that Christ …
2814 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 956.61 (Matthew Henry)
… , the church of Rome builds the monstrous doctrine of Transubstantiation, which makes the bread to be changed into the substance of Christ’s body, only the …
2815 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 956.113 (Matthew Henry)
… . The church of Christ, which is his body, is often in an agony, fightings without and fears within; and shall we be asleep then, like Gallio, that cared for none of …
2816 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 958.66 (Matthew Henry)
… the church; for nothing is more great and awful in Christian assemblies than these two. (2.) Our consent to a covenant-relation to God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost …
2817 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 958.70 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the perfect man, Ephesians 4:11-4:13. The heirs of heaven, till they come to age, must be under …
2818 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the church and its canons, and talk much of councils and fathers, when really it is nothing but a zeal for their own wealth, interest, and dominion, that governs …
2819 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 967.37 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian church, but had been so of the Jewish church. Josephus saith, The Pharisees held that the souls of the wicked were to be punished with perpetual punishment …
2820 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 970.43 (Matthew Henry)
… Macedonian churches, whose deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality, 2 Corinthians 8:2, 8:3. When we can cheerfully provide for others, out of …