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401 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.39 (Matthew Henry)
… .] Some Elias; taking occasion, no doubt, from the prophecy of Malachi ( Matthew 4:5 ), Behold, I will send you Elijah. And the rather, because Elijah (as Christ) did many …
402 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.47 (Matthew Henry)
… man, Elias, or Jeremias; but they know and believe him to be the Son of the living God, who has life in himself, and has given to his Son to have life in himself, and …
403 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.14 (Matthew Henry)
… and Elias talking with him, Matthew 17:3. Observe, 1. There were glorified saints attending him, that, when there were three to bear record on earth, Peter, James …
404 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.19 (Matthew Henry)
… , and Elias, but none for himself. He would be content to lie in the open air, on the cold ground, in such good company; if his Master have but where to lay his head, no …
405 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.20 (Matthew Henry)
… and Elias of tabernacles? They belonged to that blessed world, where they hunger no more, nor doth the sun light upon them. Christ had lately foretold his sufferings …
406 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.29 (Matthew Henry)
… to Elias, 1 Kings 19:11, 19:12. Moses then and Elias were witnesses, that in these last days God hath spoken to us by his Son, in another way than he spoke formerly …
407 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.31 (Matthew Henry)
… , and Elias was a man subject to passions; but Christ is a Son, and in him God was always well pleased. Moses and Elias were sometimes instruments of reconciliation …
408 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.35 (Matthew Henry)
… and Elias were now with him; the law and the prophets; hitherto it was said, Hear them, Luke 16:29. The disciples were ready to equal them with Christ, when they must …
409 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.39 (Matthew Henry)
… and Elias were gone, the rays of Christ’s glory were laid aside, or veiled again. They hoped this had been the day of Christ’s entrance into his kingdom, and his …
410 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.44 (Matthew Henry)
… that Elias must first come ? If Elias make so short a stay, and is gone so suddenly, and we must say nothing of him; why have we been taught out of the law to expect …
411 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.46 (Matthew Henry)
… :11 ); “ Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things; so far you are in the right.” Christ did not come to alter or invalidate any thing foretold in the Old Testament …
412 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.47 (Matthew Henry)
… performed. Elias is come, and they knew him not; they knew him not to be the Elias promised, the forerunner of the Messiah. The scribes busied themselves in criticizing …
413 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.48 (Matthew Henry)
… that Elias should be abused and killed by those who pretended, with a great deal of reverence, to expect him, when the Messiah himself will be in like manner …
414 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.49 (Matthew Henry)
… is Elias. This is a profitable way of teaching; it engages the learners’ own thoughts, and makes them, if not their own teachers, yet their own remembrancers; and …
415 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.51 (Matthew Henry)
… and Elias, did not take state upon him, but was as easy of access, as ready to poor beggars, and as familiar with the multitude, as ever he used to be. This poor man’s …
416 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 951.69 (Matthew Henry)
… thou Elias, or that prophet ?) then their demand was answered, for he bare testimony to Christ. Note, Truths appear in the clearest light when they are taken in …
417 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 951.96 (Matthew Henry)
… of Elias. See Luke 7:29. These fitly represented the Gentile world; for, as Dr. Whitby observes, the Jews generally ranked the publicans with the heathen; nay, and …
418 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 957.114 (Matthew Henry)
… putting Elias for Eli. Now observe here,
419 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 957.121 (Matthew Henry)
… . Some think that this was the ignorant mistake of the Roman soldiers, who had heard talk of Elias, and of the Jews’ expectation of the coming of Elias, but knew …
420 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 957.124 (Matthew Henry)
… to Elias ( Matthew 27:49 ); “ Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. Come, let him alone, his case is desperate, neither heaven nor earth can help him; let …