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34621 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1031.18 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual bondage are not at first aware what God has wrought in them. Many have the truth of grace that want the evidence of it. They are questioning whether …
34622 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.36 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual kingdom of the Messiah, which was now in the setting up, and which, if they would admit it and submit to it, would be the glory of their people Israel …
34623 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1033.11 (Matthew Henry)
… in spiritual things: they are lame from their birth, till the grace of God puts strength into them; for it was when we were yet without strength that Christ died …
34624 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.6 (Matthew Henry)
… . As spiritual fathers to the Gentile converts, they would not see their liberties encroached upon. They had told the Gentiles that if they believed in Jesus …
34625 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and spiritual kingdom, that they were all known unto him from the beginning of the world, from the time he first began to work, which supposes his knowing them …
34626 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.39 (Matthew Henry)
… with spiritual gifts extraordinary, and knew more of the mind of God than any since those gifts ceased can pretend to; their infallibility gave an incontestable …
34627 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.48 (Matthew Henry)
… such spiritual gifts as were suited to it; as the physician visits his recovering patient, that he may prescribe what is proper for the perfecting of his cure …
34628 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.2 (Matthew Henry)
Paul was a spiritual father, and as such a one we have him here adopting Timothy, and taking care of the education of many others who had been begotten to Christ by his ministry: and in all he appears to have been a wise and tender father. Here is,
34629 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.6 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual way of serving God, as more suited to the nature both of God and man; and, besides, that spirit of tenderness and condescension which appeared in …
34630 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.21 (Matthew Henry)
… whose spiritual things she had reaped so plentifully. Nay, they are not only welcome to her house, but she is extremely pressing and importunate with them …
34631 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.38 (Matthew Henry)
… , or spiritual song, either one of David’s, or some modern composition, or one of their own, as the Spirit gave them utterance. As our rule is that the afflicted …
34632 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.41 (Matthew Henry)
… its spiritual slumber. The call of the gospel is, Awake, thou that sleepest ( Ephesians 5:14 ), like that of Jonah 1:6. (2.) He saw the prison-doors open, and supposed, as …
34633 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.48 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual things, thought it was but reasonable that they should reap of his carnal things, 1 Corinthians 9:11. What have we houses and tables for but …
34634 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1036.5 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual guides; they put themselves into their possession as an inheritance into the possession of the right owner, so the word signifies; they first …
34635 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1036.42 (Matthew Henry)
Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem. This active mind, infus’d through all the space, Unites and mingles with the mighty mass …
34636 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1036.43 (Matthew Henry)
… is spiritual, infinite, immaterial, incomprehensible, and therefore it is a very false and unjust conception which an image gives us of God, be the matter ever …
34637 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.26 (Matthew Henry)
… our spiritual communion with one another at a distance, and may long the more for that heavenly Jerusalem in which we hope to be together for ever.
34638 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.38 (Matthew Henry)
… for spiritual gifts, yet Apollos thought there might be some work for him, and God disposed his mind that way. (2.) His friends encouraged him to go, and approved …
34639 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1038.24 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual disease, and freeing the souls of men from the power and dominion of Satan.
34640 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1039.9 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual communion with all good Christians. There ought to be stated times for the disciples of Christ to come together; though they cannot all come …