Search for: Church body
2861 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1023.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, that pretend to be so, for the church is God’s building. Here was a stone offered you, to be put in the chief place of the building, to be the main pillar …
2862 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1023.30 (Matthew Henry)
… any body of it. 3. That they might now join with them in prayers and praises; and by such a concert as this God would be the more glorified, and the church the more …
2863 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1024.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of burying the dead, as among the Romans the libitinarii and polinctores; or the young men that attended the apostles, and waited on them, they wound …
2864 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1024.26 (Matthew Henry)
… . The church increased in number ( Acts 5:14 ): Believers were the more added to the Lord, and no doubt joined themselves to the church, when they saw that God was in …
2865 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1024.47 (Matthew Henry)
… the church or in the state; and he observes here ( Acts 5:36 ) concerning him, [1.] How far he prevailed: “ A number of men, about four hundred in all, joined themselves to …
2866 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1025.7 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian church was about a money-matter; but it is a pity that the little things of this world should be makebates among those that profess to be taken up …
2867 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1025.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the church hereupon. When things were thus put into good order in the church (grievances were redressed and discontents silenced) then religion got ground …
2868 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.39 (Matthew Henry)
… -Testament church, may and will be so when this holy place is destroyed, without any diminution to his glory.” 2. The holy place was at first but a tabernacle, mean …
2869 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.63 (Matthew Henry)
… every body’s beck, as far as they have ability, when the great apostle made himself the servant of all, 1 Corinthians 9:19. He found the corpse laid in the upper …
2870 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.66 (Matthew Henry)
… the body as now dead, lest we should stagger at the promise, Romans 4:19, 4:20. But, when he had prayed, he turned to the body, and spoke in his Master’s name, according …
2871 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the body or out of the body he could not himself tell, much less can we, 2 Corinthians 12:2, 12:3. See Genesis 15:12, 22:17. 2. He saw heaven opened, that he might be sure …
2872 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1030.18 (Matthew Henry)
… same body; but left the Gentiles either to turn Jews, and so come into the church, or else remain as they were.
2873 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.4 (Matthew Henry)
… one body ( Ephesians 2:16 ), and both together admitted into the church without distinction. 2. There seems to have been something remarkable in the manner of …
2874 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.34 (Matthew Henry)
… .] Every church had its governors or presidents, whose office it was to pray with the members of the church, and to preach to them in their solemn assemblies, to …
2875 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.5 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian church, kept up the distinction of meats, and used the ceremonial purifyings from ceremonial pollutions, attend the temple service, and celebrated …
2876 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.21 (Matthew Henry)
… . The church of Christ may be called the tabernacle of David. This may sometimes be brought very low, and may seem to be in ruins, but it shall be built again, its …
2877 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.32 (Matthew Henry)
… the churches” (as the pope styles himself), “and sole judges in all matters of faith;” but the apostles, and elders, and brethren, agree in their orders. Herein they …
2878 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1039.9 (Matthew Henry)
… Christ’s body to us, to be food and a feast for our souls, is signified. In the primitive times it was the custom of many churches to receive the Lord’s supper …
2879 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1040.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the church. Good men that are very active sometimes need to be dissuaded from overworking themselves, and good men that are very bold need to be dissuaded …
2880 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1041.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the body or out of the body. In this trance he saw Jesus Christ, not with the eyes of his body, as at his conversion, but represented to the eye of his mind ( Acts 22 …