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2861 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 976.1 (Matthew Henry)

the spreading of the report of it by the shepherds, Luke 2:8-2:20. III. The circumcision of Christ, and the naming of him, Luke 2:21. IV. The presenting of him in the temple …

2862 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 976.51 (Matthew Henry)

age, a widow of about eighty-four years; some think she had now been eighty-four years a widow, and then she must be considerably above a hundred years old …

2863 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 976.65 (Matthew Henry)

5. The third day they found him in the temple, in some of the apartments belonging to the temple, where the doctors of the law kept, not their courts, but their conferences …

2864 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.5 (Matthew Henry)

… by the reign of the Roman emperor; it was in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, the third of the twelve Caesars, a very bad man, given to covetousness, drunkenness …

2865 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.10 (Matthew Henry)

… among the captives by the river of Chebar, and to John in the isle of Patmos. John was the son of a priest, now entering upon the thirtieth year of his age; and therefore …

2866 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.45 (Matthew Henry)

year, in the month Tisri; that, after this, he lived three years and a half, and died when he was thirty-two years and a half old. Three years and a half, the time of Christ’s …

2867 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.46 (Matthew Henry)

… at the word, but such a one as has been removed by the labours of learned men, both in the early ages of the church and in latter times, to which we refer ourselves …

2868 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 978.63 (Matthew Henry)

… . In the former, he struck at the root of man’s misery, which was Satan’s enmity, the origin of all the mischief: in this, he strikes at one of the most spreading branches …

2869 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 986.41 (Matthew Henry)

… his age one year or one hour? Now if ye be not able to do that which is least, if it be not in your power to alter your statures, why should you perplex yourselves …

2870 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 991.22 (Matthew Henry)

… by the want of them. It concerns us, while they are continued, to improve them, and in the years of plenty to lay up in store for the years of famine. Sometimes they …

2871 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 994.25 (Matthew Henry)

the early ages of the church ( Luke 20:37, 20:38 ): Moses showed this, as it was shown to Moses at the bush, and he hath shown it to us, when he calleth the Lord, as the Lord …

2872 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 996.2 (Matthew Henry)

… . After the revolutions of many ages, it is at length come, Isaiah 63:4. And, it is observable, it is in the very first month of that year that the redemption is wrought …

2873 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1002.86 (Matthew Henry)

… seven years towards the setting up of the kingdom of God among men than the prophets of the Old Testament had done in twice so many ages. Secondly, That it was …

2874 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.164 (Matthew Henry)

… many ages before he was born. The state of the dead is an invisible state; but here they ran upon the old mistake, understanding that corporally which Christ …

2875 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1009.14 (Matthew Henry)

… in the way of his duty, as it is in general prescribed by the word of God, and particularly determined by the providence of God: If any man walk in the day, he stumbles …

2876 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1009.119 (Matthew Henry)

… from the table among the dogs. This year was the year of the expiration of the Levitical priesthood; and out of the mouth of him who was that year high priest …

2877 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.38 (Matthew Henry)

… , was the miracle of all. I think this refers especially to the gift of tongues; this was the immediate effect of the pouring out of the Spirit, which was a constant …

2878 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1019.51 (Matthew Henry)

… up the canon of the New Testament, which John did solemnly ( Revelation 22:18 ), and to obviate the design of the enemy that sowed tares even before the servants …

2879 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1023.41 (Matthew Henry)

the apostles with courage to preach the faith of Christ endued them with courage to confess it. Note, The increase of the church is the glory of it, and the multitude …

2880 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.12 (Matthew Henry)

… upon the remove, and could call nothing his own. Thirdly, His posterity did not come to the possession of it for a long time: After four hundred years they shall …