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4081 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 992.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , a choice people, a chosen people. And this he has an eye to in all he does for them; it is because they are his chosen, and in pursuance of the choice he has made of …
4082 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1001.57 (Matthew Henry)
… and choice of the children of men; to bring letters and messages from him, for he courts by proxy; and herein they must be faithful to him. Secondly, The friends …
4083 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1002.57 (Matthew Henry)
… Jerusalem’s choice was in force, that was sinful, but because they were out in the object of their worship. If the worship itself had been as it should have been …
4084 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.101 (Matthew Henry)
… your choice whether you will or no; if you will forsake me, now is the time, when so many do: it is an hour of temptation; if you will go back, go now.” Note, Christ will …
4085 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.102 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice whom they would serve, with design to draw out from them a promise to adhere to him, and it had the like effect. Nay, but we will serve the Lord, Peter …
4086 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.103 (Matthew Henry)
… our choice too well to change.” Note, Those who leave Christ would do well to consider to whom they will go, and whether they can expect to find rest and peace any …
4087 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.49 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice so shall their doom be. They were industrious to drive him from them, and their sin shall be their punishment; he will not trouble them long, yet …
4088 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.93 (Matthew Henry)
… makes choice of sin, prefers the way of wickedness before the way of holiness ( Jeremiah 44:16, 44:17 ),—that makes a covenant with sin, enters into league with it …
4089 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.122 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice and not by surprise, with pleasure and not with reluctancy, when it is persisted in with a daring presumption and a desperate resolution, like theirs …
4090 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1013.27 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice, Christ’s choice is prior to theirs and directs and determines it. Of all that are chosen to grace and glory it may be said, They have not chosen Christ …
4091 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1013.47 (Matthew Henry)
… this choice they are designed for sets them above the world, and so makes them the objects of its envy. The saints shall judge the world, and the upright have …
4092 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1014.18 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice, but graciously over-rules it, and gives us the physic we are loth to take, because he knows it is good for us.
4093 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1014.67 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice and enjoyment of.
4094 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 …
4095 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.
4096 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 …
4097 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 .
4098 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 …
4099 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 …
4100 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 …