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301 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 566.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of the joy of a carnal worldling lie in wealth and pleasure; but the springs of the joy of a gracious soul lie in the word of God and prayer. Christ is the true temple …
302 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the great disgrace done to the house of David in the next reign by the revolt of the ten tribes. I. The psalmist, in the joyful pleasant part of the psalm, gives …
303 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 581.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the wrath of God which he was under the apprehensions of as the cause of the trouble. This, this was the wormwood and the gall in the affliction and the misery …
304 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 594.10 (Matthew Henry)
… bless the house of Aaron, that is, the church, the ministry, will bless his people in their religious concerns. The priests were to bless the people; it was their …
305 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 597.17 (Matthew Henry)
… bless the people with their prayers: We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. Christ’s ministers are not only warranted, but appointed to pronounce …
306 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 608.6 (Matthew Henry)
… let the church’s enemies have our good wishes in their designs against the church. If we wish them God speed, we are partakers of their evil deeds, 2 John 1:11 …
307 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 611.1 (Matthew Henry)
… begs of God to own what he had done. I. He had built this house for the honour and service of God; and when he brings the ark into it, the token of God’s presence, he …
308 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 611.7 (Matthew Henry)
… to the establishment both in church and state, both to the throne of the house of David and to the testimony of Israel fixed on Mount Zion. The promises concerning …
309 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 675.8 (Matthew Henry)
… found of him, salvation came to his house, Luke 19:9. Wherever we find Christ we must take him home with us to our houses, especially to our hearts. The church is …
310 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 677.2 (Matthew Henry)
… ), to the feast of fat things and wines on the lees, Isaiah 25:6. The great work of man’s redemption, and the riches of the covenant of grace, are a feast to the Lord …
311 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 680.2 (Matthew Henry)
… be the prayer of the Old-Testament saints for the hastening of Christ’s incarnation, that the church might be the better acquainted with him, when, forasmuch …
312 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 682.13 (Matthew Henry)
… was the deplorable case of the Jewish church after they had rejected Christ. Migremus hinc—Let us go hence. Your house is left unto you desolate, Matthew 23 …
313 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 718.2 (Matthew Henry)
… to the house of the Lord to pray, for that was then the house of prayer. When he was sick in bed he turned his face towards the wall, probably towards the temple …
314 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 728.4 (Matthew Henry)
… were of the royal tribe, the tribe of which Shiloh was to come, the tribe that adhered to God when the rest revolted. (4.) They swore by the name of the Lord, and thereby …
315 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.16 (Matthew Henry)
… sons of the stranger.” The prayers and praises (those spiritual sacrifices) of devout Gentiles shall be as pleasing to God as those of the pious Jews, and no difference …
316 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.17 (Matthew Henry)
… house, Hebrews 3:6. Now concerning this house it is promised, (1.) That it shall not be a house of sacrifice, but a house of prayer. The religious meetings of God’s …
317 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 742.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , till the promises be performed, and so the prayers answered that were grounded upon them. Then the church’s righteousness and salvation will go forth as …
318 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 742.4 (Matthew Henry)
… for the church. The prophet can but pray and preach, but God will confirm the word and answer the prayers. 1. The church shall be greatly admired. When that righteousness …
319 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 746.20 (Matthew Henry)
… to the word and prayer, and deacons to serve tables, and, as the Levites, to take care of the outward business of the house of God, Philippians 1:1, 6:2-6:4. The apostles …
320 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 756.19 (Matthew Henry)
… method. The cup put into the hands of God’s people is full of mixtures, mixtures of mercy; but the dregs of the cup are reserved for the wicked of the earth, let …