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4321 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 …
4322 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 …
4323 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 …
4324 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.
4325 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1014.67 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice and enjoyment of.
4326 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 …
4327 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.
4328 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 …
4329 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 .
4330 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 …
4331 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 …
4332 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 …
4333 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1025.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice.
4334 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 …
4335 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,
4336 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 .
4337 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 …
4338 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 …
4339 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 …
4340 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 …