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32941 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 13.4 (Matthew Henry)
… ; that spiritual sacrifice with which God is well pleased. He preached concerning the name of the Lord; he taught his family and neighbours the knowledge of …
32942 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 14.5 (Matthew Henry)
… in spiritual peace, what we lose for preserving neighbourly peace. When our relations are separated from us, yet God is not. Observe also the promises with …
32943 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 16.4 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual sacrifices. When vain thoughts, like these fowls, come down upon our sacrifices, we must drive them away, and seek to attend on God without distraction …
32944 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 19.3 (Matthew Henry)
… . The spiritual seed of Abraham owe their life, and joy, and hope, and all, to the promise. Sarah thinks this too good news to be true; she laughed, and therefore cannot …
32945 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 20.2 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual state, and the necessity of a change, defer that needful work. The salvation of the most righteous men is of God’s mercy, not by their own merit …
32946 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 26.6 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual privilege; and we see Jacob’s desire of the birth-right, but he sought to obtain it by crooked courses, not like his character as a plain man. He was …
32947 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 28.5 (Matthew Henry)
… to spiritual blessings for that which is of no value, will, in vain, ask urgently for them. Isaac, when made sensible of the deceit practised on him, trembled exceedingly …
32948 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 28.6 (Matthew Henry)
… these spiritual blessings to all nations. The Christ, the Saviour of the world, was to be born of some one family; and Jacob’s was preferred to Esau’s, out of the …
32949 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 32.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual idolatry. When a man gives himself up to covetousness, like Laban, the world is his god; and he has only to reside among gross idolaters in order …
32950 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 36.3 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual signification, which Jacob had some notion of, though not so clear and distinct as we now have. Christ is the promised Seed, and heaven is the promised …
32951 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 44.3 (Matthew Henry)
… for spiritual food, as they did for bodily food. Joseph’s steward had orders from his master to take them to his house. Even this frightened them. Those that …
32952 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 49.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual consolations. Jacob adopted Joseph’s two sons. Let them not succeed their father, in his power and grandeur in Egypt; but let them succeed in the …
32953 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 50.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual seed of Christ. Jacob blessed all his sons, but especially Joseph, "who was separated from his brethren." Not only separated in Egypt, but, possessing …
32954 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 54.3 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual Egypt, he will bring to a heavenly Canaan.
32955 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 58.4 (Matthew Henry)
… into spiritual blessings; the anger of God towards his enemies, renders their most valued advantages a curse and a misery to them. Aaron is to summon the plague …
32956 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 61.4 (Matthew Henry)
… it. Spiritual darkness is spiritual bondage; while Satan blinds men’s eyes that they see not, he binds their hands and feet, that they work not for God, nor move …
32957 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 62.3 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual adversary, made in the might of Jesus Christ, every attempt to overcome him by the blood of the Lamb, and every desire to attain increasing …
32958 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 63.2 (Matthew Henry)
… receive spiritual strength and nourishment from him, as from our food, see John 6:53,55. It was all to be eaten; those who by faith feed upon Christ, must feed upon …
32959 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 65.5 (Matthew Henry)
… every spiritual foe. The enemies of his soul whom he hath seen to-day, he shall see no more for ever.
32960 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 67.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual nourishment of our souls by faith and love.