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3061 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 3.17 (Matthew Henry)
… author of his being was the author of his bliss; the same hand that made him a living soul planted the tree of life for him, and settled him by it. He that made us …
3062 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 3.18 (Matthew Henry)
… for life, not for lust, and giving man an opportunity of admiring the Creator and acknowledging his providence: while his hands were about his trees, his heart …
3063 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 3.22 (Matthew Henry)
… assurance of life to him, immortal life, upon his obedience. For the tree of life being put in the midst of the garden ( Genesis 2:9 ), as the heart and soul of it, doubtless …
3064 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 3.23 (Matthew Henry)
… : “ But of the other tree which stood very near the tree of life (for they are both said to be in the midst of the garden ), and which was called the tree of knowledge …
3065 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 3.24 (Matthew Henry)
… the tree of life, and all the good that is signified by it, all the happiness thou hast, either in possession or prospect; and thou shalt become liable to death …
3066 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 4.17 (Matthew Henry)
… indulgence of the appetites of the body. In neglecting the tree of life of which he was allowed to eat, and eating of the tree of knowledge which was forbidden …
3067 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 4.54 (Matthew Henry)
… of the tree of life (now forbidden him by the divine sentence, as before the tree of knowledge was forbidden by the law), and should dare to eat of that tree, and …
3068 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 4.57 (Matthew Henry)
… a tree of life in the midst of it, which we rejoice in the hopes of); but they were set to keep that way of the tree of life which hitherto they had been in; that is, it …
3069 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 5.7 (Matthew Henry)
… characters of the persons offering. Cain was a wicked man, led a bad life, under the reigning power of the world and the flesh; and therefore his sacrifice was …
3070 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 33.22 (Matthew Henry)
… . The tree of life is better than the tree of knowledge. Thus Jacob carried his point; a blessing he wrestled for, and a blessing he had; nor did ever any of his praying …
3071 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 36.11 (Matthew Henry)
… hope of eternal life. 4. Her travail was to the life of the child, but to her own death. Note, Though the pains and perils of childbearing were introduced by sin …
3072 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 66.14 (Matthew Henry)
… full of salt into the waters of Jericho. Some make this tree typical of the cross of Christ, which sweetens the bitter waters of affliction to all the faithful …
3073 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 102.2 (Matthew Henry)
… obedience of man in innocency, by forbidding him to eat of one particular tree. 2. Most of the meats forbidden as unclean are such as were really unwholesome …
3074 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 162.10 (Matthew Henry)
… fig-trees, and pomegranates, olives of the best kind, and honey, or date-trees, as some think it should be read. (3.) Even the bowels of its earth were very rich, though …
3075 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 174.14 (Matthew Henry)
… tree of the field is man’s (the word life we supply), all the ancient versions, the Septuagint, Targums, etc., read, For is the tree of the field a man ? Or the tree of the …
3076 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 187.21 (Matthew Henry)
… -will of God we are happy, and may be easy in the want of all these things, and may rejoice in the God of our salvation though the fig-tree do not blossom, and there …
3077 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 203.13 (Matthew Henry)
… of water were. The modesty and reasonableness of her quest gave it a great advantage. Earth without water would be like a tree without sap, or the body of an animal …
3078 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 217.18 (Matthew Henry)
… palm-tree was in the tribe of Ephraim, and very near to that of Benjamin ( Judges 5:14 ): Out of Ephraim was there a root, and life in the root, against Amalek. There was …
3079 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 280.2 (Matthew Henry)
… out of tune, and his soul like a tree in winter, that has life in the root only. Therefore, after Nathan had been with him, he prays, Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation …
3080 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 292.21 (Matthew Henry)
… sword, of the cherubim who keep the way of the tree of life .