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4021 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1038.24 (Matthew Henry)
… the evil spirits went out of them, which were both significant of the great design and blessed effect of the gospel, and the healing of spiritual disease, and …
4022 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1038.25 (Matthew Henry)
… of evil spirits out of those that were possessed was one instance of Christ’s victory over Satan; but, to show in how many ways Christ triumphed over that great …
4023 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1038.29 (Matthew Henry)
… over evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus; not as those who had a veneration for Christ and a confidence in his name, as we read of some who cast out devils in …
4024 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1038.30 (Matthew Henry)
… not mocked, nor shall the glorious name of Jesus be prostituted to such a vile purpose as this; what communion hath Christ with Belial ? (1.) The evil spirit gave …
4025 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1038.34 (Matthew Henry)
… laying spirits, interpreting dreams, predicting future events, and the like, to which some think are to be added plays, romances, love-books, and unchaste and …
4026 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1042.16 (Matthew Henry)
… are not of this spirit: for let a man be ever so sincere and zealous for all the articles of the Christian faith, yet, if he lay not his neck under the yoke of their …
4027 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1043.44 (Matthew Henry)
… , My Spirit shall no more strive with them. When men will not hear God’s voice to-day, while it is called to-day, the heart is commonly hardened by the deceitfulness …
4028 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1044.5 (Matthew Henry)
… knew not, nor they neither. It is no new thing for the most excellent ones of the earth to have all manner of evil said against them falsely, not only in the song …
4029 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1046.24 (Matthew Henry)
… does not nourish and cherish it; and it is a sore evil under the sun to have a sufficiency of the good things of this life, and not to have power to use them, Ecclesiastes …
4030 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1047.32 (Matthew Henry)
… did not see, because they were resolved they would not, and none so blind as those that will not see. They would not prosecute their convictions, and for this …
4031 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1049.13 (Matthew Henry)
… Spirit, rebel against the light ( Job 24:13 ), hold fast deceit, strive to retain that sin which the Spirit strives to part them from. Contentious, and do not obey …
4032 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.9 (Matthew Henry)
… not the spiritual meaning of it—the shell, but not the kernel. He had the law in his hand and in his head, but he had it not in his heart; the notion of it, but not the …
4033 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.11 (Matthew Henry)
… walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit; and yet so far does the good prevail in hating sin, consenting to the law, delighting in it, serving the law of God …
4034 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.17 (Matthew Henry)
… might not sink in despair, but take comfort from the covenant of grace, which accepts the willingness of the spirit, and has provided pardon for the weakness …
4035 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.50 (Matthew Henry)
… , the Spirit of his grace strengthening us, and enabling us to bear them with holy courage and constancy, and coming in with special comforts and supports. Thus …
4036 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1059.30 (Matthew Henry)
… recompensing evil for evil thou wilt certainly lose him; not to one that has been thine enemy, for by not recompensing evil for evil thou mayest perhaps gain …
4037 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1060.9 (Matthew Henry)
… doeth evil: but God’s judgment extends to the evil thought, and is a discerner of the intents of the heart.— He beareth not the sword in vain. It is not for nothing …
4038 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1063.20 (Matthew Henry)
… concerning evil —so wise as not to be deceived, and yet so simple as not to be deceivers. It is a holy simplicity, not to be able to contrive, nor palliate, nor carry …
4039 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1065.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of God, such as Jude calls sensual, not having the Spirit, Jude 1:19. Men unsanctified receive not the things of God. The understanding, through the …
4040 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1068.5 (Matthew Henry)
… Spirit, as perfect a knowledge of the case, and had hereupon come to the following determination, not without special authority from the Holy Spirit. He …