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33681 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 438.20 (Matthew Henry)
… , is spiritual idolatry, worshipping the creature more than the Creator, and is likely to end in a fatal apostasy. Men cannot long serve God and mammon .
33682 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 438.21 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual life, and divine providence about their natural life, so they are safe and easy. He had prospered him, not in idleness or injustice (the devil …
33683 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 440.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual life above the natural, that though many have cursed the day of their first birth, never any cursed the day of their new-birth, nor wished they …
33684 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 440.17 (Matthew Henry)
… , through spiritual grievances, makes life itself bitter. Why doth he give light ? (so it is in the original): he means God, yet does not name him, though the devil had …
33685 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 441.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual welfare of Job, that laid him under this necessity of speaking. “Who can forbear speaking in vindication of God’s honour, which we hear reproved …
33686 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 441.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual warfare, and the feeble knees for bearing up the man in his journey and under his load. It is not only our duty to lift up our own hands that hang …
33687 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 442.29 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual prosperity, of their children; if they are truly good, they are truly great, how small a figure soever they may make in the world.
33688 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 442.31 (Matthew Henry)
… compared spiritual things with spiritual, have diligently studied them, and been confirmed in our belief of them from our own observation and experience …
33689 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 443.3 (Matthew Henry)
… administer spiritual physic to him before they thoroughly understood his case and knew the worst of it. It is seldom that those who are at ease themselves …
33690 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 443.11 (Matthew Henry)
… this spiritual food and the operation of this spiritual physic. Let us never conceal God’s word from ourselves, but always receive it in the light of it. (2.) He …
33691 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 443.22 (Matthew Henry)
… man’s spiritual state be judged of by some rash and hasty words, which a surprising trouble extorts from him? Isa. it fair, is it kind, is it just, to criticize in …
33692 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 445.8 (Matthew Henry)
… , of spiritual and divine things. The learned bishop Patrick suggests that Bildad being a Shuhite, descended from Shuah one of Abraham’s sons by Keturah ( Genesis …
33693 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 452.8 (Matthew Henry)
… undervalue spiritual delights and despise the pleasant land. “What!” (says Eliphaz) “ is there any secret thing with thee ? Hast thou some cordial to support thyself …
33694 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 452.17 (Matthew Henry)
(2.) Let us see now what is the miserable condition of this wicked man, both in spiritual and temporal judgments.
33695 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 453.2 (Matthew Henry)
… men’s spiritual state upon the view of their outward condition, and to re-advance those objections which have been again and again answered, as Eliphaz did …
33696 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 454.4 (Matthew Henry)
… get spiritual life breathed into us, and that breath will never be corrupted. (2.) Our time is ending: My days are extinct, are put out, as a candle which, from the first …
33697 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.16 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual body, 1 Corinthians 15:44. Let us therefore glorify God with our bodies because there is such a glory designed for them. [2.] Job and God shall come together …
33698 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 457.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual and divine pleasures of religion, which he has no relish or nor affection for. His keeping it still in his mouth denotes his obstinately persisting …
33699 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 457.24 (Matthew Henry)
… by spiritual judgments, which are much worse, their consciences being either, on the one hand, a terror to them, and then they are in continual amazement, or, on …
33700 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 458.13 (Matthew Henry)
… , and spiritual and eternal blessings, we have no reason to complain of losing by our religion. But, if we have not profit by prayer, it is our own fault ( Isaiah 58 …