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321 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 773.9 (Matthew Henry)
… particularly of the return of them, Ezra 1:8. Note, Though the return of the church’s prosperity do not come in our time, we must not therefore despair of it, for …
322 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 775.11 (Matthew Henry)
… that the seventy years of the captivity are not to be reckoned from the last captivity, but the first. Note, Though the deliverance of the church do not come …
323 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 782.5 (Matthew Henry)
… our prayers and our endeavours. Now, according to these orders, Baruch did read out of the book the words of the Lord, whenever there was a holy convocation, Jeremiah …
324 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.2 (Matthew Henry)
The title of the Psalms 102:1-102:28 might very fitly be prefixed to this chapter— The prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint …
325 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 811.4 (Matthew Henry)
… private houses, we must diligently attend them there. A minister’s house should be a church for all his neighbours. Paul preached in his own hired house at …
326 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 812.7 (Matthew Henry)
… tears. The sealing of the servants of God in their foreheads mentioned in Revelation 7:3 was the same token of the care God has of his own people with this related …
327 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 831.16 (Matthew Henry)
… in the sight of the heathen, will recover the honour of his holiness, to the satisfaction of all the world, Ezekiel 28:25. For, (1.) They shall return to the possession …
328 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.11 (Matthew Henry)
… !” Note, The desolations of the church must in prayer be laid before God and then left with him. (5.) “Do it for the sake of the relation we stand in to thee. The sanctuary …
329 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 899.13 (Matthew Henry)
… is the Father of the rain, and has begotten the drops of the dew, Job 38:28. They are born from above, and are not of the earth, savouring the things of the earth. 2. They …
330 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 913.17 (Matthew Henry)
… all the good words and comfortable words of the gospel we receive from Jesus Christ, as he received them from the Father, in answer to the prayer of his blood …
331 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 915.5 (Matthew Henry)
… ; thou shalt preside in the affairs of the temple, and the inferior priests shall be under thy direction.” Note, The power of the church, and of church rulers …
332 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 916.8 (Matthew Henry)
… of joy, among the spectators. The acclamations are not huzzas, but Grace, grace; that is the burden of the triumphant songs which the church sings. It may …
333 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 918.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the temple, so the man, the branch, shall be the master-builder, the sole builder of the spiritual temple, the gospel-church. He shall build the temple of the Lord …
334 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 924.15 (Matthew Henry)
… upon prayer and upon praying people. And it is a happy presage to the distressed church of deliverance approaching, and is, as it were, the dawning of its day …
335 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 924.16 (Matthew Henry)
… ) that the house of David should be as the angel of the Lord. Now, in order to that, the Spirit of grace is poured upon them; for the more the saints have of the Spirit …
336 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 969.12 (Matthew Henry)
… , turn the house of prayer into a house of merchandise; but they that make long prayers for pretence to devour widows’ houses, turn it into a den of thieves .
337 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 976.51 (Matthew Henry)
… observed the hours of prayer, but prayed night and day; was always in a praying frame, lived a life of prayer, gave herself to prayer, was frequent in ejaculations …
338 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 984.12 (Matthew Henry)
… from house to house, Acts 5:42, 20:20. Christ’s church was at first very much a church in the house. [2.] They are instructed to say, “ Peace be to this house, to all under …
339 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 992.16 (Matthew Henry)
… of prayer at the same place and time ( Luke 18:10 ): Two men went up into the temple (for the temple stood upon a hill) to pray. It was not the hour of public prayer, but …
340 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1021.66 (Matthew Henry)
… to the possession of estates and goods in it, and, in the belief of this, they sold them for the present service of Christ and his church.