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34501 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.44 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual matters, when we judge in favour of that which pleases the carnal mind, and recommends us to a carnal world, we judge after the flesh; and the judgment …
34502 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.56 (Matthew Henry)
… bespeaks spiritual judgments, which are the sorest of all judgments; worse than war, pestilence, and captivity, which the Old-Testament prophets denounced …
34503 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.80 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual liberty of Christ’s disciples, intended for the encouragement of those Jews that believed. Christ, knowing that his doctrine began to work …
34504 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.86 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual enemies, free in the service of God, free to the privileges of sons, and free of the Jerusalem which is from above, which is free. Secondly, The knowing …
34505 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.89 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual liberty, for truth as it is the enriching, so it is the enfranchising of the mind, and the enlarging of that from the captivity of error and prejudice …
34506 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.115 (Matthew Henry)
(2.) Others take it figuratively. They begin to be aware now that Christ spoke of a spiritual not a carnal father, of the father of their religion; and so,
34507 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.116 (Matthew Henry)
… as spiritual whoredom, and idolaters as children of whoredoms, Hosea 2:4, 57:3. Now, if they meant that they were not the posterity of idolaters, the allegation …
34508 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.122 (Matthew Henry)
… are spiritual wickedness; the lusts of the intellectual powers, and their corrupt reasonings; pride and envy, and wrath and malice; enmity to that which is …
34509 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.164 (Matthew Henry)
… spoke spiritually. Now this gave them occasion to despise his youth, and to upbraid him with it, as if he were but of yesterday, and knew nothing: Thou art not yet …
34510 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.166 (Matthew Henry)
… holy spiritual doctrine and law of Christ, which were so contrary to their pride and worldliness, baffled all the methods of conviction. Now was fulfilled …
34511 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.19 (Matthew Henry)
… getting spiritual wisdom is, Let a man become a fool, that he may be wise, 1 Corinthians 3:18. We must be made uneasy with our blindness, as this man here, and then …
34512 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.20 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual healing, in which, though the effect is owing purely to his power and grace, there is duty to be done by us. Go, search the scriptures, attend upon the …
34513 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.27 (Matthew Henry)
… it spiritually, it teaches us that those who are savingly enlightened by the grace of God should be ready to own what they were before that blessed change …
34514 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.29 (Matthew Henry)
… it spiritually; it is strange that blind eyes should be opened, but more strange when we consider how they are opened; how weak the means are that are used, and …
34515 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.33 (Matthew Henry)
… that spiritual cures should be wrought mostly on the Christian sabbath day. How many blind eyes have been opened by the preaching of the gospel, that blessed …
34516 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.44 (Matthew Henry)
… . The spiritual worship he prescribed overthrew their formalities; nor did any thing more effectually destroy their singularity and narrow-spiritedness …
34517 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.80 (Matthew Henry)
… purely spiritual and divine, calls himself the Son of God, and rather Son of man in general than of David in particular. (2.) The desires and expectations of the …
34518 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.82 (Matthew Henry)
… that spiritual sight is given principally for this end, that we may see Christ, 2 Corinthians 4:6. Can we say that by faith we have seen Christ, seen him in his beauty …
34519 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.87 (Matthew Henry)
… with spiritual blessings in heavenly things, such as arise from a due illumination of the mind, so the rebels should be punished with spiritual plagues, not …
34520 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1008.5 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual interests, must feed their souls with the word of God faithfully opened and applied, and with gospel ordinances duly administered, taking …