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34001 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 746.19 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual accession, is often in prophecy represented by a local motion. The apostle says of all true Christians that they have come to Mount Zion, and the …
34002 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 746.20 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual sense made to our God kings and priests, but of them, some of them. It is God’s work originally to choose ministers by qualifying them for and inclining …
34003 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 746.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual communion which all Christian assemblies have with each other by faith, hope, and holy love. The new moons and the sabbaths are mentioned because …
34004 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 746.23 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual judgments that came upon the unbelieving Jews, which St. Paul looks upon, and shows us, Romans 11:8 They became dead in sins, twice dead. The church …
34005 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.1 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual idolatries, giving that place in our souls to the world and the flesh which should have been reserved for God only!
34006 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.6 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s spiritual Israel must own their obligations to him for a safe conduct through the wilderness of this world, no less dangerous to the soul than that …
34007 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.12 (Matthew Henry)
… this spiritually. Isa. the soul of man a servant? Isa. it a home-born slave ? No, it is not. Why then is it spoiled? It is because it has sold its own liberty and enslaved …
34008 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.15 (Matthew Henry)
… is spiritual whoredom, and was commonly accompanied with corporal whoredom too. Note, Those that leave God wander endlessly, and a vagrant lust is insatiable …
34009 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.31 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual idolatry they were often guilty of that they trusted in an arm of flesh and their hearts therein departed from the Lord. Now here he shows them …
34010 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 749.20 (Matthew Henry)
… pure spiritual way of worship set up, in which there shall be no occasion for any of those external ordinances; with the ark of the covenant the whole ceremonial …
34011 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 750.16 (Matthew Henry)
… by spiritual wickedness, by those sins which begin and end in the heart and go no further; and by mortification and watchfulness we must suppress and prevent …
34012 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 751.7 (Matthew Henry)
… . Their spiritual whoredom, giving that honour to idols which is due to God only. “ Thy children have forsaken me, to whom they were born and dedicated and under …
34013 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 752.4 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual work and warfare, thus afraid of losing time, or any opportunity, in taking the kingdom of heaven by violence ! It is folly to trifle when we have …
34014 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 757.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual whoredom, have worshipped many idols; and therefore, 1. God’s temple will yield them no protection; it is fit that the adulteress, especially when …
34015 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 758.20 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual privileges of God’s Israel: “If they will be towardly, and learn the ways of my people, will conform to the rules and confine themselves to the …
34016 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 759.22 (Matthew Henry)
… , their spiritual whoredom, that sin which is of all sins most provoking to the jealous God. They are exposed to a shameful calamity ( Jeremiah 13:26 ) because they …
34017 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 769.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual seed of believing Abraham and praying Jacob shall be protected from the curse of heaven and the malice of hell, shall be privileged from the …
34018 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 769.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual glory of the second part of that nation, especially as transferred to the gospel church, is much more admirable and illustrious than all the …
34019 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 769.9 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual and corporal whoredom. They go a whoring from God, and, having cast off the fear of him, no marvel that they abandon themselves to all manner of lewdness …
34020 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 769.19 (Matthew Henry)
… have spiritual senses exercised will be able to distinguish; for what is the chaff to the wheat ? The promises of peace which these prophets make to you are …