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3081 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 608.5 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s church wither of themselves, and stay not till they are rooted out by the judgments of God. 2. It is of no use to any body; nor are they any thing but the unprofitable …
3082 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 628.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , the body of the church ( Psalms 149:2 ), the children of Zion particularly, the inhabitants of that holy hill, who are nearer to God than other Israelites; those …
3083 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 674.12 (Matthew Henry)
… -Testament church while it was in expectation of the coming of the Messiah. The ceremonial law is called a wall of partition ( Ephesians 2:14 ), a veil ( 2 Corinthians …
3084 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 674.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the churches had rest, then were they edified, Acts 9:31. [3.] To the conversion of sinners from a state of nature to a state of grace. That blessed change is like the …
3085 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 676.15 (Matthew Henry)
… his church, between Christ and every true believer. Christ calls his church his spouse, and his calling her so makes her so. “I have betrothed thee unto me for …
3086 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 679.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the church are reckoned from foot to head, that, as the apostle speaks, when he is comparing the church, as here, to the natural body ( 1 Corinthians 12:23 ), more abundant …
3087 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 680.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of the first-born, when time and days shall be no more: Let the blessed Jesus hasten that blessed day. Why are his chariot-wheels so long a coming? Why …
3088 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 681.13 (Matthew Henry)
… true church. Christ’s is a little flock. (3.) It is God’s work to sanctify and save some, when others are left to perish in their impurity. It is the work of his power …
3089 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 682.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the body of that nation, against whom an irreversible doom was passed, that they should be wholly cut off and their church quite dismantled, never to be formed …
3090 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 685.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , the body of the people, incorporated in one church and commonwealth), and what by the vines, the pleasant plants, the plants of God’s pleasure, which he had been …
3091 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 692.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, of the Jewish church when God would work great deliverances for them, and of the Christian church when the kingdom of the Messiah should be set …
3092 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 705.7 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel church is the Jerusalem that is above; there this feast is made, and to it all the invited guests must go. 4. The provision is very rich, and every thing is …
3093 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 706.22 (Matthew Henry)
… dead bodies at the last day, as Job did, and the prophet here, that will facilitate our belief of the promised restoration of the church’s lustre and strength …
3094 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 707.3 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s church ( Isaiah 27:1 ), tribulation to those that trouble it, 2 Thessalonians 1:6. When the Lord comes out of his place, to punish the inhabitants of the earth …
3095 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 707.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of God in the world shall be a growing body, and come at length to be a great body ( Isaiah 27:6 ): In times to come (so some read it), in after-times, when these …
3096 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 707.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the church; and the great trumpet of all will gather the saints together, to serve God day and night in his temple .
3097 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 715.1 (Matthew Henry)
… Jewish church, which persisted in infidelity, shall become a desolation, then the gospel church shall be set up and made to flourish. I. The Gentiles shall be …
3098 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 715.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the church militant: they shall deliver themselves out of Babylon ( Zechariah 2:7 ), shall ask the way to Zion ( Jeremiah 50:5 ), and shall find the way Isaiah 52:12. God …
3099 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 718.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the church which he was now pursuing, Isaiah 38:18. Heaven indeed praises God, and the souls of the faithful, when at death they remove thither, do that work of …
3100 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 721.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of God, and to have its accomplishment like wise in the triumphs of the cross of Christ, the gospel of Christ, and all the faithful followers of Christ …