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31941 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 473.26 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s judicial proceedings with the children of men, whose characters and cases are so various, when we cannot account for the spreadings of the clouds …
31942 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 476.9 (Matthew Henry)
… bad character. Observe, (1.) How she exposes her eggs; she does not retire to some private place, and make a nest there, as the sparrows and swallows do ( Psalms 84:3 …
31943 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 476.11 (Matthew Henry)
… that character which is given of presumptuous sinners, Jeremiah 8:6. Every one turneth to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. When a man’s heart …
31944 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 478.8 (Matthew Henry)
… different characters and on whom the terrors of the sea have contrary effects; but all agree there is a great fright among them when the leviathan raises …
31945 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 480.1 (Matthew Henry)
… different character and condition of godly people and wicked people, those that serve God and those that serve him not, is here plainly stated in a few words …
31946 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 480.3 (Matthew Henry)
… their character; for that is agreeable to a state of probation, that we may study to answer to the character, which is indeed both the command of the law which …
31947 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 480.4 (Matthew Henry)
… his character is put first, because those that will keep the commandments of their God must say to evil-doers, Depart from us ( Psalms 119:115 ), and departing from …
31948 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 480.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of such. 1. In general, he is blessed, Psalms 5:1. God blesses him, and that blessing will make him happy. Blessednesses are to him, blessings of all …
31949 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 480.8 (Matthew Henry)
… in character and condition: They are not so. The LXX. emphatically repeats this: Not so the ungodly; they are not so; they are led by the counsel of the wicked, in …
31950 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 480.10 (Matthew Henry)
… their character, how much soever it is blackened and blemished by the reproaches of men, and will shortly make them and their way manifest before the world …
31951 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 483.12 (Matthew Henry)
… many. God had set him apart for himself by distinguishing favours, and therefore he sets himself apart by a distinguishing character. “They are for any good …
31952 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 484.6 (Matthew Henry)
… that God should abhor them. These were the characters of David’s enemies; and such as these are still the enemies of Christ and his church, men perfectly lost …
31953 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 484.8 (Matthew Henry)
In Psalms 5:7-5:12 David gives three characters—of himself, of his enemies, and of all the people of God, and subjoins a prayer to each of them.
31954 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 484.12 (Matthew Henry)
… bad character; and, if they had not been bad men indeed, they could not have been enemies to a man after God’s own heart. He had spoken ( Psalms 5:6 ) of God’s hating …
31955 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 485.4 (Matthew Henry)
… his character to do so. 3. True penitents weep in their retirements. The Pharisees disguised their faces, that they might appear unto men to mourn; but David …
31956 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 490.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of the saints, who have taken God for their God, that they make him their hope. Even when they have other things to stay themselves upon, yet they …
31957 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 490.9 (Matthew Henry)
… this God perfectly knows every man’s true character: His eyes behold, his eye-lids try, the children of men; he not only sees them, but he sees through them, not …
31958 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 491.4 (Matthew Henry)
… two characters are here put together, the godly and the faithful. As there is no true policy, so there is no true piety, without honesty. Godly men are faithful …
31959 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 493.4 (Matthew Henry)
… .] The character of this sinner. He is a fool; he is simple and unwise, and this is an evidence of it; he is wicked and profane, and this is the cause of it. Note, Atheistical …
31960 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 493.13 (Matthew Henry)
… character! There is a universal corruption; O for the times of reformation! Those will be as joyful times as these are melancholy ones. Then shall God turn …