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3221 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1024.47 (Matthew Henry)
… the church or in the state; and he observes here ( Acts 5:36 ) concerning him, [1.] How far he prevailed: “ A number of men, about four hundred in all, joined themselves to …
3222 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1025.7 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian church was about a money-matter; but it is a pity that the little things of this world should be makebates among those that profess to be taken up …
3223 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1025.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the church hereupon. When things were thus put into good order in the church (grievances were redressed and discontents silenced) then religion got ground …
3224 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.39 (Matthew Henry)
… -Testament church, may and will be so when this holy place is destroyed, without any diminution to his glory.” 2. The holy place was at first but a tabernacle, mean …
3225 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.63 (Matthew Henry)
… every body’s beck, as far as they have ability, when the great apostle made himself the servant of all, 1 Corinthians 9:19. He found the corpse laid in the upper …
3226 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.66 (Matthew Henry)
… the body as now dead, lest we should stagger at the promise, Romans 4:19, 4:20. But, when he had prayed, he turned to the body, and spoke in his Master’s name, according …
3227 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the body or out of the body he could not himself tell, much less can we, 2 Corinthians 12:2, 12:3. See Genesis 15:12, 22:17. 2. He saw heaven opened, that he might be sure …
3228 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1030.18 (Matthew Henry)
… same body; but left the Gentiles either to turn Jews, and so come into the church, or else remain as they were.
3229 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.4 (Matthew Henry)
… one body ( Ephesians 2:16 ), and both together admitted into the church without distinction. 2. There seems to have been something remarkable in the manner of …
3230 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.34 (Matthew Henry)
… .] Every church had its governors or presidents, whose office it was to pray with the members of the church, and to preach to them in their solemn assemblies, to …
3231 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.5 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian church, kept up the distinction of meats, and used the ceremonial purifyings from ceremonial pollutions, attend the temple service, and celebrated …
3232 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.21 (Matthew Henry)
… . The church of Christ may be called the tabernacle of David. This may sometimes be brought very low, and may seem to be in ruins, but it shall be built again, its …
3233 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.32 (Matthew Henry)
… the churches” (as the pope styles himself), “and sole judges in all matters of faith;” but the apostles, and elders, and brethren, agree in their orders. Herein they …
3234 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1039.9 (Matthew Henry)
… Christ’s body to us, to be food and a feast for our souls, is signified. In the primitive times it was the custom of many churches to receive the Lord’s supper …
3235 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1040.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the church. Good men that are very active sometimes need to be dissuaded from overworking themselves, and good men that are very bold need to be dissuaded …
3236 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1041.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the body or out of the body. In this trance he saw Jesus Christ, not with the eyes of his body, as at his conversion, but represented to the eye of his mind ( Acts 22 …
3237 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1041.19 (Matthew Henry)
… Jewish church in particular. But, whatever he designs to say, they resolve he shall say no more to them: They gave him audience to this word. Hitherto they had …
3238 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1042.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the body, or the animal spirits, but denied their existence in a state of separation from the body, and any difference between the soul of a man and of a beast …
3239 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1042.34 (Matthew Henry)
… their church, their law, and their holy place, and then they cry out against Paul, as having diminished the reputation of them; and was this a crime worthy of death …
3240 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1043.29 (Matthew Henry)
… dead bodies of men, of all men from the beginning to the end of time. It is certain, not only that the soul does not die with the body, but that the body itself shall …