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3201 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.45 (Matthew Henry)
… any body to own him. Thus unanimous and thus expeditious are the enemies of the church, and their counsels; but he that sits in heaven laughs at them, and has them …
3202 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.76 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, that sit in Moses’s chair and are masters in Israel?” Note, Proud men scorn to be taught, especially by their inferiors, whereas we should never think …
3203 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1010.54 (Matthew Henry)
… , the church is replenished, the mystical body is kept up, and will at length be completed; and, when time shall be no more, the Captain of our salvation, bringing …
3204 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1013.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of the first-born in the great dividing day. [2.] They were each of them clean, that is, sanctified, by the truth of Christ ( John 17:17 ); that faith by which …
3205 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1013.28 (Matthew Henry)
… a church in the world, which, as our lawyers say of bodies corporate, does not die, but lives in a succession; and thus their fruit remains to this day, and shall …
3206 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1014.6 (Matthew Henry)
… his church. God’s people have suffered the greatest hardships from conscientious persecutors. Paul verily thought he ought to do what he did against the …
3207 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1014.30 (Matthew Henry)
… the bodies of many in Christ’s name, which miraculous power continued long in the church; he was cast out of the souls of people by the grace of God working with …
3208 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1015.93 (Matthew Henry)
… one body. “Father, look upon them all as one, and ratify that great charter by which they are embodied as one church. Though they live in distant places, from one …
3209 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1015.97 (Matthew Henry)
… one body they may be reconciled” ( Ephesians 2:15, 2:16 ), which speaks of the uniting of Jews and Gentiles in the church; that great mystery, that the Gentiles should …
3210 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1016.56 (Matthew Henry)
… Jewish church. He asked him who were his disciples—what number they were—of what country—what were their names and characters, insinuating that his scholars …
3211 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1019.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the church’s eyes, others as the church’s hands, and all for the good of the body. (2.) What a great deal of difference there may be between some good people and others …
3212 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1019.57 (Matthew Henry)
… the church. Hence learn, First, The uncertainty of human tradition, and the folly of building our faith upon it. Here was a tradition, an apostolical tradition …
3213 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.33 (Matthew Henry)
… his church on earth, he sent back to his disciples two of those that came to meet him, who appear as two men in white apparel, bright and glittering; for they know …
3214 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.46 (Matthew Henry)
… the church as with the members of it, if the natural branches be broken off, others shall be grafted in, Romans 11:17. Christ’s cause shall never be lost for want …
3215 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1022.17 (Matthew Henry)
… your church, in the presence of the Roman governor, who justly laughed at you for it; you denied him against the face of Pilate ” (so Dr. Hammond), “in defiance of his …
3216 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1022.28 (Matthew Henry)
… the church also, which is his body, all believers, that are the spiritual seed of Abraham. All the kindreds of the earth were blessed in having a church for Christ …
3217 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1023.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the church, that pretend to be so, for the church is God’s building. Here was a stone offered you, to be put in the chief place of the building, to be the main pillar …
3218 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1023.30 (Matthew Henry)
… any body of it. 3. That they might now join with them in prayers and praises; and by such a concert as this God would be the more glorified, and the church the more …
3219 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1024.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the church of burying the dead, as among the Romans the libitinarii and polinctores; or the young men that attended the apostles, and waited on them, they wound …
3220 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1024.26 (Matthew Henry)
… . The church increased in number ( Acts 5:14 ): Believers were the more added to the Lord, and no doubt joined themselves to the church, when they saw that God was in …