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3161 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.91 (Matthew Henry)
… and churches, to take heed of leaving their first love, of letting fall a good work of reformation begun among them, and returning to that wickedness which …
3162 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 943.1 (Matthew Henry)
… gospel church should be very small at first, but that in process of time it should become a considerable body: that of the grain of mustard-seed ( Matthew 13:31 …
3163 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 944.31 (Matthew Henry)
… the church did for Peter’s, Acts 12:5. They had free access to him in prison, which was a comfort to them, but they wished to see him at liberty, that he might preach …
3164 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.54 (Matthew Henry)
… that body politic is incorporated. Such is the communion between Christ and the church, the Bridegroom and the spouse. God had a church in the world from the …
3165 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.57 (Matthew Henry)
… his church upon a rock. This body politic is incorporated by the style and title of Christ’s church. It is a number o the children of men called out of the world …
3166 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.63 (Matthew Henry)
… my church .” Perhaps he laid his hand on his breast, as when he said, Destroy this temple ( John 2:19 ), when he spoke of the temple of his body. Then he took occasion from …
3167 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 953.81 (Matthew Henry)
We have left the blind leaders fallen into the ditch, under Christ’s sentence, into the damnation of hell; let us see what will become of the blind followers, of the body of the Jewish church, and particularly Jerusalem.
3168 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 953.95 (Matthew Henry)
… whole body of the Jewish nation into the church, and so gathered them all (as the Jews used to speak of proselytes) under the wings of the Divine Majesty. It is …
3169 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 954.70 (Matthew Henry)
… his church after the preaching of the gospel to all the world. We read not of any of the ordinances of the Jewish church, which were purely ceremonial, that Christ …
3170 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 956.61 (Matthew Henry)
… , the church of Rome builds the monstrous doctrine of Transubstantiation, which makes the bread to be changed into the substance of Christ’s body, only the …
3171 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 956.113 (Matthew Henry)
… . The church of Christ, which is his body, is often in an agony, fightings without and fears within; and shall we be asleep then, like Gallio, that cared for none of …
3172 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 958.66 (Matthew Henry)
… the church; for nothing is more great and awful in Christian assemblies than these two. (2.) Our consent to a covenant-relation to God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost …
3173 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 958.70 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the perfect man, Ephesians 4:11-4:13. The heirs of heaven, till they come to age, must be under …
3174 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the church and its canons, and talk much of councils and fathers, when really it is nothing but a zeal for their own wealth, interest, and dominion, that governs …
3175 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 967.37 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian church, but had been so of the Jewish church. Josephus saith, The Pharisees held that the souls of the wicked were to be punished with perpetual punishment …
3176 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 970.43 (Matthew Henry)
… Macedonian churches, whose deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality, 2 Corinthians 8:2, 8:3. When we can cheerfully provide for others, out of …
3177 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 972.54 (Matthew Henry)
… his church on earth, even when it is half asleep, and not duly concerned for itself, while he ever lives making intercession with his Father in heaven. See how …
3178 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 973.35 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, he was one of the great Sanhedrim of the Jews, or one of the high priest’s council. He was euschemon bouleutes — a counsellor that conducted himself …
3179 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 973.42 (Matthew Henry)
… his body, bespeaks the care which he himself will take concerning his body the church. Even when it seems to be a dead body, and as a valley full of dry bones, it …
3180 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.36 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, was sign enough,—though he had this notice given him in the temple, the place of God’s oracles, where he had reason to think no evil angel would be permitted …