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4081 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1014.92 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice, when they are alone, as Isaac in the field, Nathanael under the fig-tree, Peter upon the house-top, meditating and praying, the Father is with them …
4082 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1016.70 (Matthew Henry)
… first choice well, and not to mingle with those whom we cannot please without displeasing God.
4083 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1017.4 (Matthew Henry)
… people’s choice, took Jesus, and scourged him, that is, appointed the lictors that attended him to do it. Bede is of opinion that Pilate scourged Jesus himself …
4084 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1018.85 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice, and entirely refer ourselves to him. This is the vital act of faith, He is mine, Song of Solomon 2:16 .
4085 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.8 (Matthew Henry)
… , Christ’s choice is always attended with his charge. Those whom he elected into the apostleship expected he should give them preferments, instead of which …
4086 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.40 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of another apostle. He stood up in the midst of the disciples, Acts 1:15. He did not sit down, as one that gave laws, or had any supremacy over the rest, but …
4087 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.47 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of another apostle, Acts 1:21, 1:22. Here observe, (1.) How the person must be qualified that must fill the vacancy. It must be one of these men, these seventy …
4088 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1025.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice.
4089 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1025.18 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice, and ordained them. [1.] They prayed with them, and for them, that God would give them more and more of the Holy Ghost and of wisdom—that he would qualify …
4090 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.17 (Matthew Henry)
… made choice among us that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel. Now here,
4091 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.31 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice he had made of their fathers, Deuteronomy 7:7, 7:8. They were beloved purely for the fathers’ sakes, Romans 11:28 .
4092 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.36 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice was divine: I have found David, Psalms 89:20. God himself pitched upon him. Finding implies seeking; as if God had ransacked all the families of Israel …
4093 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.13 (Matthew Henry)
… made choice among us apostles of one to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, and I was the person chosen, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word, and …
4094 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.28 (Matthew Henry)
… . The choice of the delegates that were to be sent with Paul and Barnabas on this errand; not as if they had any suspicion of the fidelity of these great men, and …
4095 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.44 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice of Christ and their resolutions for Christ. (2.) To exhort them to perseverance, and to the particular duties required of them: to quicken them to …
4096 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1041.14 (Matthew Henry)
… particular choice; his calling God the God of our fathers intimates that Ananias was himself a Jew by birth, that observed the law of the fathers, and lived …
4097 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1044.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice or of course, comes to this resolution: Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? Unto Caesar thou shalt go. He found there was something very extraordinary …
4098 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1053.5 (Matthew Henry)
… new choice of the way. Choose new paths to walk in, new leaders to walk after, new companions to walk with. Old things should pass away, and all things become new …
4099 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1053.20 (Matthew Henry)
… our choice. (1.) The end of sin is death ( Romans 6:21 ): The end of those things is death. Though the way may seem pleasant and inviting, yet the end is dismal: at the last …
4100 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.25 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice. All the creatures desire their own perfection and consummation; when they are made instruments of sin it is not willingly. Or, They are thus captivated …