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34101 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 865.4 (Matthew Henry)
… her spiritual whoredom she has forfeited all the honour and comfort of her relation to God, and provoked him to give her a bill of divorce. Note, No consideration …
34102 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 865.30 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual sense (so the learned Dr. Pocock thinks): it is an effusion of those blessings and graces which relate to the soul that is here promised under the …
34103 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 866.4 (Matthew Henry)
… that spiritual adultery. And they loved flagons of wine; they joined with idolaters because they lived merrily and drank hard; they had a kindness for other …
34104 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 867.17 (Matthew Henry)
1. Spiritual whoredom, or idolatry. They have in them a spirit of whoredoms, a strong inclination to that sin; the bent and bias of their hearts are that way; it …
34105 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 868.1 (Matthew Henry)
… . 2. Spiritual whoredom, Hosea 5:3, 5:4. 3. Pride, Hosea 5:5. 4. Apostasy from God, Hosea 5:7. 5. The tyranny of the princes, and the tameness of the people in submitting to it …
34106 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 868.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual idolatry, whose god is their money, whose god is their belly, deal treacherously against the Lord; they violate their engagements to him and frustrate …
34107 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 869.16 (Matthew Henry)
… and spiritual whoredom; there it is too plain to be denied. Note, The sin of sinners, especially sinners of the house of Israel, has enough in it to make them tremble …
34108 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.10 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual and eternal welfare, is a present disorder and distemper to their own bodies. (2.) In his honour; for, when he was thus intoxicated, he stretched …
34109 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 871.3 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual whoredom; they have, in effect, declared that they will be no longer God’s people, nor take him for their God; that is transgressing the covenant …
34110 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 871.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual idolatry of the covetous: Their silver and their gold are the gods they place their happiness in, set their hearts upon, to which they pay their …
34111 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 871.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual sacrifice of a penitent believing heart? Note, Those services only are acceptable to God which are performed according to the rule of his word …
34112 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 872.2 (Matthew Henry)
… with spiritual adultery: O Israel! thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, Hosea 9:1. Their covenant with God was a marriage-covenant, by which they were joined …
34113 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 872.4 (Matthew Henry)
III. They are threatened with destroying judgments for their spiritual whoredoms, according to what was said long before. Psalms 73:27; Thou hast destroyed all those that go a whoring from thee. It is here threatened,
34114 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 872.8 (Matthew Henry)
… prize spiritual bread by being made to feel a famine of it.” Note, When we enjoy the means of grace we ought to consider what we shall do if ever we should know the …
34115 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 872.13 (Matthew Henry)
… be spiritual men (as Ahab’s prophets did, 1 Kings 22:24 ) were fools and madmen, and not true prophets; they deceived themselves and those to whom they prophesied …
34116 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 873.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and spiritual whoredom, which they are so often charged with, or the two calves at Dan and Bethel, or those two great evils mentioned Jeremiah 2:12. Or, When I shall …
34117 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 874.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual slavery. 3. He gave them a good education, took care of them, took pains with them, not only as a father or tutor, but, such is the condescension of divine …
34118 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 874.16 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s spiritual Israel, the gospel-church, brought together and incorporated by the gospel of Christ. The ancient Jews referred it to the time of the Messiah …
34119 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 874.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual Israel, to whom the foregoing promises belong, for as for this Ephraim, this Israel, they compass God about with lies and deceit; all their services …
34120 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 876.17 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual resurrection from the death of sin to a holy, heavenly, spiritual, and divine life. It is promised, (1.) That the captives shall be delivered, shall …