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34481 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.1 (Matthew Henry)
… to spiritual food ( John 6:26, 6:27 ), showing them how they must labour for spiritual food ( John 6:28, 6:29 ), and what that spiritual food is, John 6:30-6:59. V. Their discontent …
34482 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.10 (Matthew Henry)
… Christ’s spiritual gifts, instead of paying for them, shall be paid for their acceptance of them. Christ, having fed their souls with the bread of life, feeds …
34483 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.42 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual things under the similitude of water; here he speaks of them under the similitude of meat, taking occasion from the loaves they had eaten. His …
34484 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.52 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual food; but Moses fed his followers forty years, and miracles were not their rarities, but their daily bread: Christ fed them with bread out of the …
34485 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.55 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual bread of the everlasting gospel excel the manna. In calling God his Father, he proclaims himself greater than Moses; for Moses was faithful …
34486 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.58 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual bread, 1 Corinthians 10:3, 10:4. Manna was given to Israel; so Christ to the spiritual Israel. There was manna enough for them all; so in Christ a fulness …
34487 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.65 (Matthew Henry)
… for spiritual blessings. They think the favour of God a good thing, and heaven a fine place, and cannot but wish them their own, while they have no value nor desire …
34488 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.71 (Matthew Henry)
… that spiritual meat, yet with many of them God was not well-pleased, but they were overthrown in the wilderness, 1 Corinthians 10:3-10:5. Their eating manna was …
34489 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.81 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual way. The Father of spirits hath access to, and influence upon, men’s spirits, undiscerned. The Father of spirits hath access to, and influence upon …
34490 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.83 (Matthew Henry)
… things spiritual and divine are represented by bodily actions about things sensible, which made the truths of Christ more intelligible to some, and less …
34491 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.84 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual eating and drinking that is here spoken of, not a sacramental. [3.] It is misunderstood by many ignorant carnal people, who hence infer that, if they …
34492 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.86 (Matthew Henry)
… is spiritually; so Dr. Whitby; as Christ is called the true vine; or truly meat, in opposition to the shows and shadows with which the world shams off those that …
34493 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.87 (Matthew Henry)
… . This spiritual eating and drinking begins with hungering and thirsting ( Matthew 5:6 ), earnest and importunate desires after Christ, not willing to take up …
34494 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.95 (Matthew Henry)
… that spiritual things are senseless and sapless, spiritual minds relish them; see 1 Corinthians 2:14, 2:15 .
34495 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.3 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s spiritual Israel in this world. This feast, which was instituted so many hundred years before, was still religiously observed. Note, Divine institutions …
34496 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.55 (Matthew Henry)
… want spiritual blessings, he may be supplied by me.” Or, [2.] Of the inclination of their souls and their desires towards a spiritual happiness. If any man hunger …
34497 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.58 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual life, and the earnests and beginnings of eternal life. See Jeremiah 2:13. [2.] Rivers of living water, denoting both plenty and constancy. The comfort …
34498 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.75 (Matthew Henry)
… about spiritual things than spiritual men themselves, or to see further into religion than those who make its study their profession? If rulers and Pharisees …
34499 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.40 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual life in this world and of everlasting life in the other world, where there will be no death nor darkness. Follow Christ, and we shall undoubtedly …
34500 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.43 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual life comes, and whither it tends, and go upon sure grounds.