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2841 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.107 (Matthew Henry)
… whose bodies were possessed by the devil are never called devils ( demoniacs, but not devils ); but Judas, into whose heart Satan entered, and filled it, is called …
2842 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.76 (Matthew Henry)
… . The church’s common interests are betrayed when any one part of it studies to render the other mean and despicable. If they meant the followers of Christ …
2843 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.89 (Matthew Henry)
… the church’s children; but they are not all Israel that are of Israel. (2.) We were never in bondage to any man. Now observe, [1.] How false this allegation was. I wonder …
2844 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.41 (Matthew Henry)
… the church for them in baptism; but, when they are of age, it is fit that they should be asked whether they be willing to stand to that which their parents did for …
2845 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.45 (Matthew Henry)
… any body to own him. Thus unanimous and thus expeditious are the enemies of the church, and their counsels; but he that sits in heaven laughs at them, and has them …
2846 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.76 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, that sit in Moses’s chair and are masters in Israel?” Note, Proud men scorn to be taught, especially by their inferiors, whereas we should never think …
2847 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1010.54 (Matthew Henry)
… , the church is replenished, the mystical body is kept up, and will at length be completed; and, when time shall be no more, the Captain of our salvation, bringing …
2848 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1013.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of the first-born in the great dividing day. [2.] They were each of them clean, that is, sanctified, by the truth of Christ ( John 17:17 ); that faith by which …
2849 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1013.28 (Matthew Henry)
… a church in the world, which, as our lawyers say of bodies corporate, does not die, but lives in a succession; and thus their fruit remains to this day, and shall …
2850 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1014.6 (Matthew Henry)
… his church. God’s people have suffered the greatest hardships from conscientious persecutors. Paul verily thought he ought to do what he did against the …
2851 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1014.30 (Matthew Henry)
… the bodies of many in Christ’s name, which miraculous power continued long in the church; he was cast out of the souls of people by the grace of God working with …
2852 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1015.93 (Matthew Henry)
… one body. “Father, look upon them all as one, and ratify that great charter by which they are embodied as one church. Though they live in distant places, from one …
2853 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1015.97 (Matthew Henry)
… one body they may be reconciled” ( Ephesians 2:15, 2:16 ), which speaks of the uniting of Jews and Gentiles in the church; that great mystery, that the Gentiles should …
2854 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1016.56 (Matthew Henry)
… Jewish church. He asked him who were his disciples—what number they were—of what country—what were their names and characters, insinuating that his scholars …
2855 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1019.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the church’s eyes, others as the church’s hands, and all for the good of the body. (2.) What a great deal of difference there may be between some good people and others …
2856 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1019.57 (Matthew Henry)
… the church. Hence learn, First, The uncertainty of human tradition, and the folly of building our faith upon it. Here was a tradition, an apostolical tradition …
2857 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.33 (Matthew Henry)
… his church on earth, he sent back to his disciples two of those that came to meet him, who appear as two men in white apparel, bright and glittering; for they know …
2858 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.46 (Matthew Henry)
… the church as with the members of it, if the natural branches be broken off, others shall be grafted in, Romans 11:17. Christ’s cause shall never be lost for want …
2859 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1022.17 (Matthew Henry)
… your church, in the presence of the Roman governor, who justly laughed at you for it; you denied him against the face of Pilate ” (so Dr. Hammond), “in defiance of his …
2860 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1022.28 (Matthew Henry)
… the church also, which is his body, all believers, that are the spiritual seed of Abraham. All the kindreds of the earth were blessed in having a church for Christ …