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3081 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 296.7 (Matthew Henry)
… comforts of communion with God, and now he led them into the comfortable use of the good things of this life. This pleasant posture of Israel’s affairs extended …
3082 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 299.2 (Matthew Henry)
… read of the tower of Lebanon, which looks towards Damascus ( Song of Solomon 7:4 ), which probably was part of this house. A particular account is given of this house …
3083 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 316.26 (Matthew Henry)
… salt of grace; for out of them are the issues of life. Make the tree good and the fruit will be good. Purify the heart and that will cleanse the hands. (3.) He did not …
3084 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 360.8 (Matthew Henry)
… be of an angel with a drawn sword in his hand, a flaming sword, like that of the cherubim, which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life! While we lie under …
3085 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 394.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the tree of knowledge of which he might not eat, debarred himself from the tree of life, of which he might have eaten. Let all that read it say, The Lord is righteous …
3086 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 400.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the trees of the wood are moved with the wind, and then no marvel that the heart of his people was so too, Isaiah 7:2. With what he said he put life into his people …
3087 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 445.4 (Matthew Henry)
… grain of mustard seed to a great tree. Let us not therefore despise the day of small things, but hope for the day of great things.
3088 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 447.17 (Matthew Henry)
… of life which (as he conceived) hindered the main end of his life, which was the glorifying of God. His harp was hung on the willow-trees, and he was quite out of tune …
3089 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 448.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the tree of life for the tree of knowledge. Now is such a creature as this fit to contend with God or call him to an account? Did we but better know God and ourselves …
3090 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 450.20 (Matthew Henry)
… of the divine life. Evidences for heaven are eclipsed, sensible communications interrupted, dread of divine wrath impressed, and the returns of comfort …
3091 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 451.13 (Matthew Henry)
… a tree cut down will. What hope there is of a tree he shows very elegantly, Job 14:7-14:9. If the body of the tree be cut down, and only the stem or stump left in the ground …
3092 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 455.13 (Matthew Henry)
… out of the tabernacle of the body, as a tree that cumbered the ground. “Thy soul shall be required of thee.” 2. See him dead, and see his case then with an eye of faith …
3093 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.7 (Matthew Henry)
… a tree cut down, or plucked up by the roots, which will never grow again.” Hope in this life is a perishing thing, but the hope of good men, when it is cut off from this …
3094 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of the day, yet Job was taught of God to believe in a living Redeemer, and to look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come, for of these …
3095 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 461.11 (Matthew Henry)
… ) out of the reach of danger, and lifted up in the pride of their own spirits. 4. That, at length, they are carried out of the world very silently and gently, and without …
3096 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 461.12 (Matthew Henry)
… mention of the punishment of these sinners in the other world, but it is intimated in the particular notice taken of the consequences of their death. 1. The …
3097 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 465.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the tree of knowledge he allowed him the tree of life, and this is that tree, Proverbs 3:18. We cannot attain true wisdom but by divine revelation. The Lord giveth …
3098 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 480.6 (Matthew Henry)
… good tree grew of itself; it is the planting of the Lord, and therefore he must in it be glorified. Isaiah 61:3; The trees of the Lord are full of sap. [2.] That he is placed …
3099 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 501.14 (Matthew Henry)
… . The life of the sinner was forfeited, and therefore the life of the sacrifice must be the ransom for it. The sentence of death passed upon Adam was thus expressed …
3100 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 503.11 (Matthew Henry)
… heaven must then be opened to him, those doors that may be truly called everlasting, which had been shut against us, to keep the way of the tree of life, Genesis …