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421 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 562.5 (Matthew Henry)
… my estate. “Lord,” says the psalmist, “they are thy enemies, for they consult against thy hidden ones.” Note, God’s people are his hidden ones, hidden, (1.) In respect of …
422 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 569.7 (Matthew Henry)
… see the frailty of man, and his vanity even at his best estate ( Psalms 90:5, 90:6 ): look upon all the children of men, and we shall see, 1. That their life is a dying life …
423 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 573.8 (Matthew Henry)
… slay the widow and the stranger; not only neglect the fatherless, and make a prey of them, but murder them, because they are weak and exposed, and sometimes lie …
424 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 582.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the inheritance ( Ephesians 1:11 ) and look for the mercy of the Lord, the Lord Jesus, unto eternal life. Secondly, To their seed, which shall be kept up to the end …
425 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 586.4 (Matthew Henry)
… not the admonitions of their own consciences nor the just reproofs of their friends, contemn the counsel of the Most High, and for this they are bound in affliction …
426 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.9 (Matthew Henry)
… estate should be ruined, as the estates of malefactors are confiscated ( Psalms 109:11 ): Let the extortioner, the officer, seize all that he has and let the stranger …
427 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 591.9 (Matthew Henry)
… in the family, and goes along with the wealth and riches, and the heirs of the father’s estate inherit his virtues too, that is a happy family indeed. However …
428 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 591.16 (Matthew Henry)
… . The happiness of the saints is the envy of the wicked, and that envy is the rottenness of their bones. But it will most fully be accomplished in the other …
429 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 594.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the meanest that fear him. Both the weak in grace and the strong shall be blessed of God, the lambs and the sheep of his flock. It is promised ( Psalms 115:14 ), The Lord …
430 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 597.5 (Matthew Henry)
… with the malice of enemies; God chastened him with the love and tenderness of a Father. Perhaps he refers to the same trouble which God, the author of it, designed …
431 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.75 (Matthew Henry)
… forget the law ( Proverbs 31:5 ), so others weep and forget the law; but we must in every condition, both prosperous and adverse, have the things of God in remembrance …
432 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 604.7 (Matthew Henry)
… :3. (1.) It is supposed that the rod of the wicked may come, may fall, upon the lot of the righteous. The rod of their power may oppress them; the rod of their anger may …
433 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 615.4 (Matthew Henry)
… . In the many redemptions wrought for the Jewish church out of the hands of their oppressors (when, in the years of their servitude, their estate was very low …
434 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 623.12 (Matthew Henry)
… in the building,—when we see them by faith united to Christ, as the chief corner-stone, adorned with the graces of God’s Spirit, which are the polishing of that …
435 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 630.27 (Matthew Henry)
… ; but the ease of the simple (so the margin reads it) shall slay them; the more secure they are the more certain and the more dreadful will their destruction be …
436 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 632.11 (Matthew Henry)
… worldly estates serviceable to our religion, to use them and the interest we have by them for the promoting of religion, to do good to the poor with what we have …
437 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 634.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the sinner’s face, or by the grave; when the body is rotting there, the soul is racking in the torments of hell, where the worm dies not, and “ Son, remember ,” is the constant …
438 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 635.2 (Matthew Henry)
… their estates, and to teach them prudence in the management of them. Godliness has precepts, as well as promises, relating to the life that now is .
439 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 635.27 (Matthew Henry)
… purchased the ruin of his body and soul at the expense of his wealth. The prodigal son spent his living on harlots, so that he brought himself to be fellow-commoner …
440 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 636.10 (Matthew Henry)
… forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; but “the good man of the house, whom I am weary of.” Thus Potiphar’s wife, when she spoke of her …