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2881 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1041.19 (Matthew Henry)
… Jewish church in particular. But, whatever he designs to say, they resolve he shall say no more to them: They gave him audience to this word. Hitherto they had …
2882 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1042.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the body, or the animal spirits, but denied their existence in a state of separation from the body, and any difference between the soul of a man and of a beast …
2883 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1042.34 (Matthew Henry)
… their church, their law, and their holy place, and then they cry out against Paul, as having diminished the reputation of them; and was this a crime worthy of death …
2884 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1043.29 (Matthew Henry)
… dead bodies of men, of all men from the beginning to the end of time. It is certain, not only that the soul does not die with the body, but that the body itself shall …
2885 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1045.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, which was a support to it. Though they set him up as a mark, he was not singular: “ Our twelve tribes, the body of the Jewish church, instantly serving God …
2886 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.23 (Matthew Henry)
… the church in this world always is, but was then especially, an afflicted state; to be a Christian was certainly to be a sufferer. Now, to comfort them in reference …
2887 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.26 (Matthew Henry)
… the body also, and has provided a great deal of honour and happiness for the body. The resurrection is here called the redemption of the body. It shall then be …
2888 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1056.14 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian churches were planted, this national body was thereby abandoned, their church-polity dissolved; and Christian churches (and in process of time …
2889 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1056.31 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian churches into the divine favour, and the spreading of the gospel in other nations, was a work which God would likewise finish, and be known by his …
2890 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.2 (Matthew Henry)
… his church again.
2891 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of God than wise and good men think they are. They are ready to conclude hardly, and to give up all for gone, when it is not so. Secondly, In times of general …
2892 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.22 (Matthew Henry)
… a church. Now, if they were holy, which is not meant so much of inherent as of federal holiness—if they were in the church and in the covenant—then we have reason …
2893 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1059.17 (Matthew Henry)
… churches, in the discharge of which each must study to do his own duty, for the preserving of order and the promotion of edification in the church, each …
2894 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1060.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of Rome may not only exempt such from subjection to the civil powers, but place them in authority above them, making the greatest princes subject …
2895 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1060.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, to the poor, to those that you have dealings with in buying, selling, exchanging, etc. Render to all their dues; and that readily and cheerfully, not …
2896 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of Christ be if Christians would study to please one another, as now we see them commonly industrious to cross, and thwart, and contradict one another …
2897 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the church on earth and the wages of that in heaven. One design of Christ was that the Gentiles likewise might be converted that they might be one with the Jews …
2898 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.41 (Matthew Henry)
… flourishing churches, though yet in their infancy, newly converted to Christianity. And I wish the observation did not hold that people are commonly more …
2899 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.42 (Matthew Henry)
… the churches, and took this by the bye; this was indeed a part of the trust committed to him, in which he was concerned to approve himself faithful ( Galatians …
2900 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1065.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of Corinth spoke very contemptuously of him: His bodily presence, say they, is weak, and his speech contemptible, 2 Corinthians 10:10. Possibly he …