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33961 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.33 (Matthew Henry)

… the spiritual nature of his kingdom—they shall be ashamed; some shall be brought to a penitential shame for it, others to a remediless ruin. One way or other …

33962 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 726.5 (Matthew Henry)

… . Our spiritual life is sustained by his grace as necessarily and constantly as our natural life by his providence. The saints have acknowledged that God …

33963 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.3 (Matthew Henry)

… the spiritual Israel, the elect, in the salvation of whom by Jesus Christ God will be glorified, and his free grace for ever admired.

33964 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.16 (Matthew Henry)

… God’s spiritual Israel are under, from their release out of bondage to their settlement in the heavenly Canaan. [1.] They shall have their charges borne and …

33965 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.27 (Matthew Henry)

… a spiritual accession to the mystical body of Christ in faith and love. Those that come to Jesus as the Mediator of the new covenant do thereby come to the Mount …

33966 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.7 (Matthew Henry)

… our spiritual slumbers, that we may hear as for our lives. We need to be awakened morning by morning, as duly as the day returns, to be awakened to do the work of …

33967 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.11 (Matthew Henry)

… their spiritual comforts, which relate to their souls. They walk in darkness when their evidences for heaven are clouded, their joy in God is interrupted …

33968 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 732.9 (Matthew Henry)

… our spiritual enemies and liberty from our spiritual bondage. The good news is that the Lord Jesus reigns and all power is given to him. Christ himself brought …

33969 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 732.10 (Matthew Henry)

… God spiritual priests, Revelation 1:6. They are to bear the vessels of the Lord, are entrusted to keep the ordinances of God pure and entire; it is a good thing …

33970 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 733.7 (Matthew Henry)

… was spiritually discerned. Carnal hearts see no excellency in the Lord Jesus, nothing that should induce them to desire an acquaintance with him or interest …

33971 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 733.19 (Matthew Henry)

… his spiritual seed: Who can count the vast numbers of converts that shall by the gospel be begotten to him, like the dew of the morning?

33972 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 733.28 (Matthew Henry)

… his spiritual seed is the covenant of grace made, which is grounded upon and grafted in the covenant of redemption, which here we have some of the glorious …

33973 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 735.6 (Matthew Henry)

… the spiritual life may be nourished and strengthened by it. We must buy necessary provisions for our souls, be willing to part with any thing, though ever so …

33974 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 735.12 (Matthew Henry)

… the spiritual life. All the wealth and pleasure in the world will not make one meal’s meat for a soul. Eternal truth and eternal good are the only food for a rational …

33975 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 735.14 (Matthew Henry)

… have spiritual enemies to grapple with, but, to animate us for the conflict, we have a good captain, like Joshua, a leader and commander to tread our enemies under …

33976 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.8 (Matthew Henry)

… being spiritual priests, because they were shut out from the congregation of Israel and the Levitical priesthood; no, as the taking down of the partition …

33977 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.12 (Matthew Henry)

… not. Spiritual blessings are unspeakably better than those of sons and daughters; for children are a certain care and may prove the greatest grief and shame …

33978 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.16 (Matthew Henry)

… (those spiritual sacrifices) of devout Gentiles shall be as pleasing to God as those of the pious Jews, and no difference shall be made between them; for, though …

33979 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.1 (Matthew Henry)

… and spiritual whoredoms which the Jews were guilty of, and the destroying judgments they were thereby bringing upon themselves, Isaiah 57:3-57:12. III. Upon …

33980 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.12 (Matthew Henry)

… committest spiritual whoredom, with all the wantonness of an idolatrous fancy, and in direct violation of the covenant of thy God. Thither wentest thou up …