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2841 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 451.5 (Matthew Henry)
… with the days of the first patriarchs, much more in comparison with the days of eternity, but much fewer to most, who come short of what we call the age of man. Man …
2842 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 458.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the death of the body is the birth of the soul into another world, death-bed agonies may not unfitly be compared to child-bed throes. Observe the difference …
2843 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 479.19 (Matthew Henry)
… his age was doubled, as his other possessions. 1. He lived to have much of the comfort of this life, for he saw his posterity to the fourth generation, Job 42:16. Though …
2844 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 513.10 (Matthew Henry)
… on the harp, or to handle the sword or spear, or to draw the bow, or I will teach you the maxims of state policy;” but I will teach you the fear of the Lord, which is better …
2845 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 540.10 (Matthew Henry)
… in the third person, because the psalm was delivered to the chief musician for the use of the church, and he would have the people, in singing it, to be encouraged …
2846 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 550.1 (Matthew Henry)
… declining years; for this psalm, above any other, is fitted for the use of the old disciples of Jesus Christ. I. He begins the psalm with believing prayers, with …
2847 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 550.11 (Matthew Henry)
… age they fail; the life is continued, but the strength is gone, or that which is his labour and sorrow, Psalms 90:10. [2.] The gracious desire he had of the continuance …
2848 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 563.9 (Matthew Henry)
… in the midst of all the delights of the children of men. Better than a thousand, he does not say days, you may supply it with years, with ages, if you will, and yet David …
2849 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.24 (Matthew Henry)
… in the flower of his age. This seems to intimate that the psalm was penned in Rehoboam’s time, when the house of David was but in the days of its youth, and yet waxed …
2850 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 569.1 (Matthew Henry)
… to the frailty of human life in general, and, in singing it, we may easily apply it to the years of our passage through the wilderness of this world, and it furnishes …
2851 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 569.11 (Matthew Henry)
… : Our years are seventy, and the years of some, by reason of strength, are eighty; but the breadth of our years (for so the latter word signifies, rather than strength …
2852 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 574.13 (Matthew Henry)
… in the head. When the corrupt affections pervert the judgment, and so lead the soul out of the ways of duty and obedience, there is an error of the heart. [4.] God’s …
2853 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.91 (Matthew Henry)
… preceding ages. In short, the written word is a surer guide to heaven than all the doctors and fathers, the teachers and ancients, of the church; and the sacred …
2854 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 645.28 (Matthew Henry)
… , that the multitude of their years should teach them the best wisdom; let them therefore be found in that way. Death will come; the Judge is coming; the Lord is …
2855 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 652.13 (Matthew Henry)
… for the multitude of her years and the wisdom which they teach. Scornful and insolent young men will make a jest, it may be, of the good advice of an aged mother …
2856 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 666.7 (Matthew Henry)
… many years, or rather many days, for our life is to be reckoned rather by days than years: The days of his years are many, and so healthful is his constitution, and …
2857 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 671.15 (Matthew Henry)
… in the formation of the great world, as the eye is one of the first in the formation of the body, the little world. It is pleasant to see the light; the heathen were …
2858 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.4 (Matthew Henry)
… get the property of death altered, that we may die comfortably. (2.) Before old age comes, which, if death prevent not, will come, and they will be years of which we …
2859 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.7 (Matthew Henry)
… not the pleasure either of the converse of the day or the repose of the night, for both the sun and the moon are darkened to them. Secondly, Then the clouds return …
2860 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 681.4 (Matthew Henry)
… suppose the apostle refers, Hebrews 11:37. From the year that king Uzziah died ( Isaiah 6:1 ) to Hezekiah’s sickness and recovery was forty-seven years; how much …