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31961 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 494.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the characters of a citizen of Zion ( Psalms 14:1 ): “ Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? Let me know who shall go to heaven.” Not, who by name (in this way the Lord only …
31962 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 494.10 (Matthew Henry)
… this character of the citizen of Zion. He is like Zion-hill itself, which cannot be moved, but abides for ever, Psalms 125:1. Every true living member of the church …
31963 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 494.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the characters here given of the citizen of Zion, that we may never be moved from God’s tabernacle on earth, and may arrive, at last, at that holy hill where we …
31964 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 496.1 (Matthew Henry)
… to God still to be upheld in his integrity and preserved from the malice of his enemies, Psalms 17:5-17:8, 17:13. III. He gives a character of his enemies, using that …
31965 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 496.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of God’s people that they trust in him; he is pleased to make them confidants, for his secret is with the righteous; and they make him their trust …
31966 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 496.18 (Matthew Henry)
… are God’s hidden treasures, for the earth is his and the fulness thereof, though the men of the world think it is their own and forget God’s property in it. Those …
31967 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 498.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of God. It is the character of all good people that they prefer their religion and the word of God, (1.) Far before all the wealth of the world. It is more desirable …
31968 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 500.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of whose king it is that he makes God’s strength his confidence and God’s salvation his joy, that is pleased with all the advancements of God’s kingdom …
31969 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 503.7 (Matthew Henry)
… this character, who are accounted to the Lord for a generation, Psalms 22:30. And they are such as seek God, that seek they face, O Jacob ! [1.] They join themselves to …
31970 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 504.3 (Matthew Henry)
… towards God: Unto thee, O Lord! do I lift up my soul, Psalms 25:1. In the foregoing psalm ( Psalms 24:4 ) it was made the character of a good man that he has not lifted up …
31971 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 504.14 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s nature. We value the promise by the character of him that makes its. We may therefore depend upon God’s promises; for good and upright is the Lord, and …
31972 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 505.1 (Matthew Henry)
… these characters. The learned Amyraldus, in his argument of his psalm, suggests that David is here, by the spirit of prophecy, carried out to speak of himself …
31973 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 505.4 (Matthew Henry)
… standard. God knows every man’s true character, for he knows the thoughts and intents of the heart, as sees through every disguise. David prays, Lord, examine …
31974 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.9 (Matthew Henry)
… worst characters by those that resolved to give them the worst treatment. 5. His life was aimed at and he went in continual peril of it. Fear was on every side …
31975 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.11 (Matthew Henry)
… indelible characters of infamy upon them. [2.] With a great deal of falsehood: They are lying lips, taught by the father of lies and serving his interest. [3.] With …
31976 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.17 (Matthew Henry)
… to God cannot but desire that others also may be in love with him; for in his favour there is no need to fear a rival. It is the character of the saints that they …
31977 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 511.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of the blessed man; and he that has not this character cannot expect to be happy:” but when it is here said, Blessed is the man whose iniquity is forgiven …
31978 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 511.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of those whose sins are pardoned: in whose spirit there is no guile. He does not say, “There is no guilt ” (for who is there that lives and sins not?), but …
31979 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 513.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of the righteous, whose prayers God will hear, that they are of a broken heart and a contrite spirit (that is, humbled for sin and emptied of self …
31980 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 514.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of the godly in the land that they are the quiet in the land, that they live in all dutiful subjection to government and governors, in the Lord …