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3141 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 878.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , palm-tree, and apple-tree, yea, all the trees of the field, as well as those of the orchard, timber-trees as well as fruit-trees. In short, all the harvest of the field …
3142 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 904.8 (Matthew Henry)
… quantities of water, that that which is so necessary to the support of human life may not be wanting; it is put here for all manner of provision, with which Nineveh …
3143 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 907.16 (Matthew Henry)
… only of the delights of this life, but even of the necessary supports of it, Habakkuk 3:17. Famine is one of the ordinary effects of war, and those commonly feel …
3144 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 912.16 (Matthew Henry)
… this tree of life is so known by its fruits that one may discern almost to a day a remarkable turn of Providence in favour of those that return in a way of duty …
3145 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 916.15 (Matthew Henry)
… forth of the word of life. 2. If by the candlestick we understand the church of the first-born, of true believers, these sons of oil may be meant of Christ and the …
3146 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 925.6 (Matthew Henry)
… his life for the sheep. 2. How he uses him: Awake, O sword! against him. If he will be a sacrifice, he must be slain, for without the shedding of blood, the life-blood, there …
3147 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 929.9 (Matthew Henry)
… savour of life unto life ( Malachi 3:3 ): He shall sit as a refiner. Christ by his gospel shall purify and reform his church, and by his Spirit working with it shall …
3148 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 932.19 (Matthew Henry)
… a tree of life. Now they were sure that God was with them, and the tokens of his presence and favour cannot but fill with joy unspeakable the souls of those that …
3149 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 932.28 (Matthew Henry)
… legions of angels to be his life-guard, or cherubim with flaming swords to keep this tree of life ? Cannot he strike Herod dead, or wither the hand that is stretched …
3150 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 933.15 (Matthew Henry)
… serious life, a life of self-denial, mortification, and contempt of the world. John Baptist thus showed the deep sense he had of the badness of the time and place …
3151 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 934.20 (Matthew Henry)
… out of the earth ( Job 28:5 ); but he can, if he please, make use of other means to keep men alive; any word proceeding out of the mouth of God, any thing that God shall order …
3152 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 937.11 (Matthew Henry)
… a tree of life ( Proverbs 3:18 ). [2.] Among the generation of the wicked, there are some that have arrived at such a pitch of wickedness, that they are looked upon as …
3153 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 938.48 (Matthew Henry)
… miracles of his life; nay, though those miracles are ceased, we may say, that he bore our sicknesses then, when he bore our sins in his own body upon the tree; for …
3154 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 939.38 (Matthew Henry)
… best of Christ’s disciples pass through a state of infancy; all the trees in Christ’s garden are not of a growth, nor all his scholars in the same form; there …
3155 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.42 (Matthew Henry)
… little life they have, but it is like that of a bruised reed; some little heat, but like that of smoking flax. Christ’s disciples were as yet but weak, and many are …
3156 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.69 (Matthew Henry)
… the tree will be corrupt, and the fruit accordingly. You may make a crab-stock to become a good tree, by grafting into it a shoot from a good tree, and then the fruit …
3157 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 951.1 (Matthew Henry)
… resurrection of Jesus Christ are the two main hinges upon which the door of salvation turns. He came into the world on purpose to give his life a ransom; so he …
3158 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 957.137 (Matthew Henry)
… the tree of life. We have free access through Christ to the throne of grace, or mercy—seat, now, and to the throne of glory hereafter, Hebrews 4:16, 6:20. The rending …
3159 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 973.9 (Matthew Henry)
… of the animal spirits, which connect the soul and body, so that the exhausting of the blood is the exhausting of the life. Christ was to lay down his life for us …
3160 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 989.28 (Matthew Henry)
… sentence of death, but dead in state too, dead in trespasses and sins, destitute of spiritual life; no union with Christ, no spiritual senses exercised, no living …