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2921 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 …
2922 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 …
2923 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 …
2924 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.39 (Matthew Henry)
… true tabernacle into the possession of the Gentiles. 6. That tabernacle continued for many ages, even to the days of David, above four hundred years, before …
2925 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1031.40 (Matthew Henry)
… , or the least abatement, and then he died in the fifty-fourth year of his age, when he had been king seven years.”
2926 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.50 (Matthew Henry)
… over the house of Jacob, not as David, for forty years, but for all ages, as long as the sun and moon endure, Psalms 89:29, 89:36, 89:37. His throne must be as the days of …
2927 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.5 (Matthew Henry)
… years the mistake would be effectually rectified by the destruction of the temple and the total dissolution of the Jewish church, by which the observance …
2928 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.21 (Matthew Henry)
… . (2.) The bringing in of the Gentiles as the effect and consequence of this ( Acts 15:17 ): That the residue of men might seek after the Lord; not the Jews only, who thought …
2929 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1040.24 (Matthew Henry)
… from the beginning; some think, one of the seventy disciples of Christ, or one of the first converts after the pouring out of the Spirit, or one of the first that …
2930 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1070.23 (Matthew Henry)
… that age, and those parts of the world, and especially among the Jews, reckoned a disgrace for a woman to remain unmarried past a certain number of years: it gave …
2931 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1090.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of the age, used as if he had been the burden of the earth, and the plague of his generation. And yet this is not all; for, as an apostle, the care of all the churches …
2932 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1125.2 (Matthew Henry)
… . Now the rule is, 1. To be very tender in rebuking elders—elders in age, elders by office. Respect must be had to the dignity of their years and place, and therefore …
2933 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1131.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness. The gospel is truth; the great, sure, and saving truth ( Colossians 1:5 ), the word of the truth of the gospel …
2934 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.5 (Matthew Henry)
… . To the aged men. By aged men some understand elders by office, including deacons, etc. But it is rather to be taken of the aged in point of years. Old disciples of …
2935 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.7 (Matthew Henry)
… ; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. God would have a resemblance of Christ’s authority …
2936 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.8 (Matthew Henry)
… , joining the seriousness of age with the liveliness and vigour of youth. This will make even those younger years to pass to good purpose, and yield matter of …
2937 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1134.18 (Matthew Henry)
… of the person pleading gives additional force to his petition, as here: Being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. Years bespeak …
2938 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.23 (Matthew Henry)
… as the barren womb. (2.) She was delivered of a child, a man-child, a child of the promise, and comfort of his parents’ advanced years, and the hope of future ages. (3.) From …
2939 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.57 (Matthew Henry)
… to years ( Hebrews 11:24 ); not only to years of discretion, but of experience, to the age of forty years—when he was great, or had come to maturity. Some would take this …
2940 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1152.14 (Matthew Henry)
… heal the disease; the popish anointing is for the expulsion of the relics of sin, and to enable the soul (as they pretend) the better to combat with the powers …