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33421 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 13.23 (Matthew Henry)
… , that spiritual sacrifice with which God is well pleased. He preached concerning the name of the Lord, that is, he instructed his family and neighbours in the …
33422 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 14.18 (Matthew Henry)
… in spiritual peace what we lose for the preservation of neighbourly peace. When Abram had willingly offered Lot one-half of his right, God came, and confirmed …
33423 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 14.20 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual seed of Abram for ever, Hebrews 11:14. (3.) He gives him livery and seisin of it, though it was a reversion: “ Arise, walk through the land, Genesis 13:17 …
33424 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 15.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual provisions of strength and comfort which Christ has laid up for us in the covenant of grace for our refreshment, when we are wearied with our …
33425 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 15.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual sacrifices we must offer up daily, and upon particular occasions. (2.) God, as the most high God, must have the glory of all our victories, Exodus 17 …
33426 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.2 (Matthew Henry)
… with spiritual blessings is an excellent means to keep us from being too much taken up with temporal enjoyments. The gifts of common providence are not comparable …
33427 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.10 (Matthew Henry)
… his spiritual seed are like the stars of heaven, not only numerous, but glorious, and very precious.
33428 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.15 (Matthew Henry)
… .) A spiritual mercy, a mercy to his soul, a deliverance from sin and its fatal consequences. If God save our souls, we shall want nothing that is good for us. (3.) A fresh …
33429 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.18 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual sacrifices, that nothing be suffered to prey upon them and render them unfit for God’s acceptance. When vain thoughts, like these fowls, come …
33430 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.21 (Matthew Henry)
… things spiritual. The doors of the body were locked up, that the soul might be private and retired, and might act the more freely and like itself. 2. With this sleep …
33431 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.35 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual sacrifices is a token for good and an earnest of further favours. See Judges 13:23. And by this we may know that he accepts our sacrifices if he …
33432 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 17.25 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual. It is an easier thing to persuade men to assume the form of godliness than to submit to the power of godliness.
33433 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 18.9 (Matthew Henry)
… his spiritual seed, and that he should be called, not only the friend of God, but the father of the faithful. In this sense the apostle directs us to understand …
33434 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 18.11 (Matthew Henry)
… his spiritual seed. 3. It is everlasting in the evangelical sense and meaning of it. The covenant of grace is everlasting. It is from everlasting in the counsels …
33435 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 18.12 (Matthew Henry)
… his spiritual seed, by a covenant, and for a possession, truly everlasting. The offer of this eternal life is made in the word, and confirmed by the sacraments …
33436 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 18.17 (Matthew Henry)
… uprightness. Spiritual blessings are the best blessings, and those for which we should be most earnest with God, both for ourselves and others. Those live …
33437 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 18.19 (Matthew Henry)
… hat spiritual blessings also were bestowed upon him, though the visible church was not brought out of his loins and the covenant was not lodged in his family …
33438 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 19.3 (Matthew Henry)
… three spiritual heavenly beings, now assuming human bodies, that they might be visible to Abraham, and conversable with him. Some think that they were all …
33439 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 19.7 (Matthew Henry)
… . The spiritual seed of Abraham owe their life, and joy, and hope, and all, to the promise. They are born by the word of God, 1 Peter 1:23 .
33440 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 20.12 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual state, and the necessity of a change, yet defer that needful work, and foolishly linger. Lot did so, and it might have been fatal to him it the angels …