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32181 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 819.24 (Matthew Henry)

… scandalous character than Sodom herself. Those that are high may perhaps come to stand upon a level with those they contemn. Or “Sodom was not mentioned, that …

32182 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 821.10 (Matthew Henry)

character towards his neighbours; yet it will not suffice that he be just and true to his brother, to complete his character he must be so to his God likewise …

32183 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 821.13 (Matthew Henry)

… whose character is the reverse of his father’s, his condition will certainly be so too. (1.) It is supposed as no uncommon case, but a very melancholy one, that the …

32184 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 821.14 (Matthew Henry)

… that character given of the just man ( Ezekiel 18:6 ), to show how good men walk in the same spirit and in the same steps. This just man here, when he took care to avoid …

32185 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 821.22 (Matthew Henry)

… .) The character of an apostate, that turns away from his righteousness. He never was in sincerity a righteous man (as appears by that of the apostle, 1 John 2:19 …

32186 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 823.4 (Matthew Henry)

… fathers, God Almighty. Note, As the foundation of our blessedness is laid in God’s choosing us, so the first step towards it is God’s making himself known to …

32187 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 824.13 (Matthew Henry)

character, Ezekiel 21:25. Thou profane and wicked prince of Israel ! He was not so bad as some of his predecessors, and yet bad enough to merit his character. He …

32188 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 824.16 (Matthew Henry)

… bad character as this, who have the wit of men to do the work of wild beasts—human reason, which makes them skilful, but no human compassion, which makes them skilful …

32189 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 825.4 (Matthew Henry)

… invidious characters and telling ill-natured stories of their neighbours, sow discord among brethren, will be accountable for all the mischief that follows …

32190 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 825.19 (Matthew Henry)

… the character of the iron age. Their being lead denotes their dulness, sottishness, and stupidity: though soft and pliable to evil, yet heavy and not movable …

32191 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 826.2 (Matthew Henry)

… the God of Israel, fearing other gods, and walking in the statutes of the heathen; it was for this that God was very angry with them and removed them out of his …

32192 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 839.5 (Matthew Henry)

… . This character it had got among the neighbours; but God now promises that it shall be so no more: Thou shalt no more bereave them of men ( Ezekiel 36:12 ), shalt devour …

32193 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 847.5 (Matthew Henry)

… this character from him who perfectly knew them, that a people in covenant with God should be rebellious against him. Who are his subjects if the house of Israel …

32194 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 850.6 (Matthew Henry)

… of character and condition, as the turning of the dead sea into a fountain of gardens. When children of wrath became children of love, and those that were dead …

32195 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 856.4 (Matthew Henry)

… or characters unknown to them, but God either cast a mist before their eyes or put such confusion upon their spirits that they could not read it, that the honour …

32196 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 856.5 (Matthew Henry)

… high character she gives of Daniel: He is a man in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, who has something in him more than human, not only the spirit of a man, which …

32197 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 856.6 (Matthew Henry)

… the gods was in him; and he had sent for him to try whether he deserved so high a character or no. 3. He acknowledges that all the wise men of Babylon were baffled …

32198 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 856.15 (Matthew Henry)

… equity. God does as perfectly know his true character as the goldsmith knows the weight of that which he has weighed in the nicest scales. God does not give …

32199 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 859.21 (Matthew Henry)

… in God’s hand for the chastising of the Jews. Now observe here, (1.) His character: He shall be a king of fierce countenance, insolent and furious, neither fearing …

32200 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.7 (Matthew Henry)

… their character, and had continued a holy people, they would have been high above all nations in praise, and mane, and honour ( Deuteronomy 26:19 ); but now that they …