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34901 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1136.10 (Matthew Henry)
… all spiritual and eternal concerns. Christ has the administration of the gospel church, which at once bespeaks Christ’s honour and the church’s happiness …
34902 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1136.33 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual death; nor can he draw any into sin (the procuring cause of death), nor require the soul of any from the body, nor execute the sentence upon any but …
34903 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1138.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of spiritual rest is a promise left us by the Lord Jesus Christ in his last will and testament, as a precious legacy. Our business is to see to it that we be the …
34904 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1138.4 (Matthew Henry)
… gain spiritual riches by it; it is a price put into our hands to get wisdom, the rich endowment of the soul. 2. There have been in all ages a great many unprofitable …
34905 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1138.5 (Matthew Henry)
… that spiritual rest which is discovered and tendered in the gospel: Let us fear lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem …
34906 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1138.8 (Matthew Henry)
… more spiritual and excellent sabbath remaining for the people of God than that into which Joshua led the Jews ( Hebrews 4:6-4:9 ), and this rest remaining, [1.] A rest …
34907 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1138.9 (Matthew Henry)
… this spiritual rest, either of grace here or glory hereafter. This is as certain as the word and oath of God can make it. As sure as God has entered into his rest …
34908 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1138.11 (Matthew Henry)
… —rest spiritual and eternal, the rest of grace here and glory hereafter—in Christ on earth, with Christ in heaven. 2. The way to this end prescribed—labour, diligent …
34909 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1139.11 (Matthew Henry)
… true spiritual honour. He is the fountain of true authority, whether he calls any to the priesthood in an extraordinary way, as he did Aaron, or in an ordinary …
34910 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1139.15 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritual glorious body. (3.) God the Father was able to save him from death. He could have prevented his dying, but he would not; for then the great design of his …
34911 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1139.21 (Matthew Henry)
… these spiritual things; the memory is weak, and does not retain them.
34912 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1139.23 (Matthew Henry)
… in spiritual knowledge themselves.
34913 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1139.25 (Matthew Henry)
… are spiritual senses as well as those that are natural. There is a spiritual eye, a spiritual appetite, a spiritual taste; the soul has its sensations as well …
34914 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1140.2 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual progress; and, for their greater encouragement, he puts himself with them: Let us go on. Here observe, In order to their growth, Christians must …
34915 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1140.4 (Matthew Henry)
… a spiritually dead state and course; as if he had said, “Beware of destroying the life of grace in your souls; your minds were changed by conversion, and so were …
34916 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1140.12 (Matthew Henry)
III. He shows that this spiritual growth is the surest way to prevent that dreadful sin of apostasy from the faith. And here,
34917 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.5 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual conflicts, refreshes them, renews their strength, and blesses them. (7.) That Abraham gave him a tenth part of all ( Hebrews 7:2 ), that is, as the apostle …
34918 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the spiritual living sacrifices proper to the gospel, and the spiritual and eternal privileges purchased by Christ, who was consecrated by the eternal …
34919 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.16 (Matthew Henry)
… , perspicuous, spiritual, and efficacious, than that of the law. Christ is in this gospel covenant a surety for us to God and for God to us, to see that the articles …
34920 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.17 (Matthew Henry)
… their spiritual concerns in heaven. Such a vacancy might be very dangerous and prejudicial to them; but this is their safety and happiness, that this ever …