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3161 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 994.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the tree of life in it. They have also vineyard-fruits to present to the Lord of the vineyard. There are rents to be paid and services to be done, which, though bearing …
3162 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.58 (Matthew Henry)
… bread of life ( John 6:35, 6:48 ), that bread of life, alluding to the tree of life in the midst of the garden of Eden, which was to Adam the seal of that part of the covenant …
3163 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.63 (Matthew Henry)
… eternal life may be had, if it be not our own fault; that whereas, upon the sin of the first Adam, the way of the tree of life was blocked up, by the grace of the second …
3164 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.65 (Matthew Henry)
… wishes of them; like Balaam’s wish, to die the death of the righteous. Those who have an indistinct knowledge of the things of God, who see men as trees walking …
3165 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.10 (Matthew Henry)
… masters of their own time. The confinement of business is a thousand times better than the liberty of idleness. Or, it may be meant of the time of his appearing …
3166 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.49 (Matthew Henry)
… sentence of the judge, and the sword of the angel at every gate of the new Jerusalem, to keep the way of the tree of life against those who have no right to enter …
3167 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.58 (Matthew Henry)
… principles of spiritual life, and the earnests and beginnings of eternal life. See Jeremiah 2:13. [2.] Rivers of living water, denoting both plenty and constancy …
3168 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.21 (Matthew Henry)
… the tree of life in the way of innocency; but Christ is another way to it. By Christ, as the way an intercourse is settled and kept up between heaven and earth; the …
3169 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.62 (Matthew Henry)
… touch of Christ’s hand, who at first only saw men as trees walking. (3.) They are known by all that receive the Spirit of truth, to their abundant satisfaction, for …
3170 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1013.5 (Matthew Henry)
… branches of this vine, which supposes that Christ is the root of the vine. The root is unseen, and our life is hid with Christ; the root bears the tree ( Romans 11 …
3171 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1015.30 (Matthew Henry)
… book of life, and therefore not in the breast-plate of the great high-priest. And miserable is the condition of such, as it was of those whom the prophet was forbidden …
3172 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1018.95 (Matthew Henry)
… have life through his name. This is, First, To direct our faith; it must have an eye to the life, the crown of life, the tree of life set before us. Life through Christ’s …
3173 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.61 (Matthew Henry)
… method of them. She was full of good works, as a tree that is full of fruit. Many are full of good words, who are empty and barren in good works; but Tabitha was a great …
3174 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1050.22 (Matthew Henry)
… short of the glory of God —have failed of that which is the chief end of man. Come short, as the archer comes short of the mark, as the runner comes short of the prize …
3175 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1052.2 (Matthew Henry)
… fruits of this tree of life are exceedingly precious.
3176 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.24 (Matthew Henry)
… a tree of life, Proverbs 13:12. Now he observes an expectation of this glory,
3177 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.20 (Matthew Henry)
… deal of light and strength and beauty. (2.) It is called the receiving of them. The conversion of a soul is the receiving of that soul, so the conversion of a nation …
3178 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1064.14 (Matthew Henry)
… in life, and died so accursed a death, for their deliverer and king. They despised him, and looked upon him as execrable, because he was hanged on a tree, and because …
3179 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1106.8 (Matthew Henry)
… form of a servant. He was brought up meanly, probably working with his supposed father at his trade. His whole life was a life of humiliation, meanness, poverty …
3180 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1135.24 (Matthew Henry)
… and trees grow old, but this world itself grows old, and is hastening to its dissolution; it changes like a garment, has lost much of its beauty and strength; it …