Search for: god's character
32101 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 722.20 (Matthew Henry)
… character that is given of them ( Isaiah 42:19, 42:20 ): Who is blind, but my servant, or deaf as my messenger ? The people of the Jews were in profession God’s servants …
32102 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 724.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the character and livery of God’s family. They shall love all God’s people, shall associate with them, give them the right hand of fellowship, espouse their …
32103 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 724.26 (Matthew Henry)
… sad character given of these idolaters is, 1. That they put a cheat upon themselves ( Isaiah 44:20 ): They feed on ashes; they feed themselves with hopes of advantage …
32104 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.11 (Matthew Henry)
… his God, his in covenant; let him keep hold of his covenant-relation to God, and call God his God, as Christ on the cross, My God, My God. Let him stay himself upon the …
32105 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 732.9 (Matthew Henry)
… all God’s people, whose character it is that they look for that redemption, Luke 2:38. [2.] God will have the glory of it, Isaiah 52:10. He has made bare his holy arm (manifested …
32106 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 733.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the character he wore in it, were no way agreeable to the ideas which the Jews had formed of the Messiah and their expectations concerning him, but quite the …
32107 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 733.9 (Matthew Henry)
… of characters, and had all manner of evil said against him. At last he was smitten with the hand, with blow after blow. 3. He had wounds and stripes. He was scourged …
32108 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 733.14 (Matthew Henry)
… true character; we are bent to backslide from God, but altogether unable of ourselves to return to him. This is mentioned not only as our infelicity (that we …
32109 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 735.27 (Matthew Henry)
… men’s characters. Those that were as thorns and briers, good for nothing but the fire, nay, hurtful and vexatious, shall become graceful and useful as the fir …
32110 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.11 (Matthew Henry)
… these characters. (1.) They keep God’s sabbaths as he has appointed them to be kept. In the primitive times, if a Christian were asked, “Hast thou kept holy the Lord’s …
32111 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.12 (Matthew Henry)
… this character, though they are not built up into families ( Isaiah 56:5 ): Unto them will I give a better place and name. It is supposed that there is a place and a …
32112 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.20 (Matthew Henry)
… sad character that is here given of these watchmen. Woe unto thee, O land ! when thy guides are such. 1. They had no sense or knowledge of their business. They were …
32113 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.9 (Matthew Henry)
… general character here given of them, or the name and title by which they stand indicted, Isaiah 57:3. They are told to draw near and hear the charge, are set to …
32114 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 738.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of God and the house of Jacob, though they wear an honourable title and character, by which they are interested in many glorious privileges, yet do not flatter …
32115 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 742.4 (Matthew Henry)
… new character, be advanced to a new dignity, and those about thee shall have new thoughts of thee.” This seems to be alluded to in that promise ( Revelation 2:17 …
32116 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 742.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of God’s professing people that they make mention of the Lord, and continue to do so even in bad times, when the land is termed forsaken and desolate …
32117 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 744.6 (Matthew Henry)
… what God has prepared for those that wait for him. Observe the character of God’s people; they are such as wait for him in the way of duty, wait for the salvation …
32118 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 745.7 (Matthew Henry)
(1.) The bad character of this people. The world shall see that it was not for nothing that they were rejected of God; no, it was for their whoredoms that they were put away.
32119 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 745.8 (Matthew Henry)
… .] Their character in general was such as one would not expect of those who had been so much the favourites of Heaven. First, They were very wilful. Right or wrong …
32120 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 745.25 (Matthew Henry)
… bad characters— Thou art as cruel as a Jew; and in imprecation— God make thee as miserable as a Jew. It shall be for a curse to God’s chosen, that is, for a warning to …