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32461 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1163.23 (Matthew Henry)
… , odious characters, and calumnies, and exposed them to persecution and the sword. No wonder, then, that he who has a considerable acquaintance with the heart …
32462 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1164.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s dwelling in us, subjoins the note and character thereof: Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit, 1 John …
32463 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1165.19 (Matthew Henry)
… his character at the transfiguration, Matthew 17:5. Thirdly, In accompanying him with miraculous power and works: If I do not the works of my Father, believe …
32464 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1166.3 (Matthew Henry)
… chosen character: The elder. The expression, and style, and love, intimate that the penman was the same with that of the foregoing epistle; he is now the elder …
32465 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1166.6 (Matthew Henry)
… emphatic character— the Son of the Father; such a Son as none else can be; such a Son as is the brightness of the Father’s glory, and the express image of his person …
32466 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1167.13 (Matthew Henry)
… unbeseeming character of Christ’s ministers to love pre-eminence, to affect presidency in the church of God.
32467 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1167.16 (Matthew Henry)
… different character, dissuasion from copying such a pattern, and indeed any evil at all: Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good, 3 John …
32468 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1167.17 (Matthew Henry)
… . The character of another person, one Demetrius, not much known otherwise. But here his name will live. A name in the gospel, a fame in the churches, is better than …
32469 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.1 (Matthew Henry)
… , a character of the church, the blessings and privileges of that happy society, Jude 1:1, 1:2. II. The occasion of writing this epistle, Jude 1:3. III. A character of …
32470 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.3 (Matthew Henry)
… whose character and martyrdom Josephus makes mention, ascribing the horrible destruction of that city and nation to this wicked cruelty, as one of its principal …
32471 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , disadvantageous characters of our brethren. This is the least we can make of the apostle’s large and excellent description of charity ( 1 Corinthians 13 …
32472 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.7 (Matthew Henry)
… character, especially of doing it without the least proof, or, as it too often happens, the least shadow of it. Those are ungodly men who live without God in …
32473 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.11 (Matthew Henry)
… their character, course, and end, be our seasonable and sufficient warning; like sins will produce like punishments and miseries. Here,
32474 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.21 (Matthew Henry)
… bad character; such are very weak at least, and for the most part very wicked. They murmur against God and his providence, against men and their conduct; they …
32475 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.24 (Matthew Henry)
… odious character: These are those who separate, etc., Jude 1:19. Observe, (1.) Sensualists are the worst separatists. They separate themselves from God, and Christ …
32476 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1169.10 (Matthew Henry)
… named: God the Father, which may be taken either essentially, for God as God, or personally, for the first person in the ever-blessed Trinity, the God and Father …
32477 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1170.29 (Matthew Henry)
… two characters:—(1.) That his eyes are like a flame of fire, signifying his piercing, penetrating, perfect knowledge, a thorough insight into all persons and all …
32478 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1171.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of him that hath the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars, taken out of Revelation 1:4; where the seven spirits are said to be before the throne …
32479 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1177.5 (Matthew Henry)
… . Prophetic characters of time are hardly to be understood by us; but in general the time is fixed to an hour, when it shall begin and when it shall end; and how far …
32480 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1180.14 (Matthew Henry)
… prophetic characters, taken from Daniel 7:25. 2. The continual malice of the dragon against the church. Her obscurity could not altogether protect her; the …