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441 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1002.43 (Matthew Henry)
[6.] The woman (whether in jest or earnest is hard to say) begs of him to give her some of this water ( John 4:15 ): Give me this water, that I thirst not. First, Some think that …
442 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1002.70 (Matthew Henry)
… at a distance) with a woman, a strange woman alone (he used to be more reserved ), especially with a Samaritan woman, that was not of the lost sheep of the house of …
443 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.94 (Matthew Henry)
… when the children of the bond-woman and of the free shall be distinguished. True believers only, who are the children of the promise and of the covenant, are …
444 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.168 (Matthew Henry)
… the woman, the church, Revelation 12:6. When they took up loose stones to throw at Christ, he could have commanded the fixed stones, which did cry out of the wall …
445 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1009.3 (Matthew Henry)
… affliction. The more friends we have the more frequently we are thus afflicted by sympathy; and the dearer they are the more grievous it is. The multiplying …
446 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.3 (Matthew Henry)
… wanted the sign of the covenant he might not want the thing signified. 4. That he had gained a very good character among the Christians: he was well reported …
447 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.43 (Matthew Henry)
… as the woman of Samaria, when Christ had impressed convictions on her conscience, left her water-pot and forgot her errand to the well; for he called for a light …
448 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.36 (Matthew Henry)
… good woman, though not permitted to speak in the church or in the synagogue, yet doing good with the knowledge God had given her in private converse. Paul will …
449 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.3 (Matthew Henry)
… to the law, which, according to the law of marriage, was to continue only during the life of the law. The law of marriage is binding till the death of one of the parties …
450 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1062.41 (Matthew Henry)
… to the flesh, who is the light to enlighten the Gentiles; out of the same stock came the prophets, and apostles, and first preachers of the gospel. The Jews, having …
451 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1063.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the good wife of the family was so very eminent and forward in religion, so eminent that she is often named first. A virtuous woman, that looks well to the ways …
452 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1070.4 (Matthew Henry)
… into the power of the other, the wife hers into the power of the husband, the husband his into the power of the wife. Note, Polygamy, or the marriage of more persons …
453 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1070.23 (Matthew Henry)
… view the general meaning is plain. It was in that age, and those parts of the world, and especially among the Jews, reckoned a disgrace for a woman to remain unmarried …
454 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1072.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , as the other apostles certainly had, and led them about with them. For that a wife is here to be understood by the sister-woman ~ adelphen gynaika, is plain from …
455 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1074.4 (Matthew Henry)
… asserting the superiority of the man over the woman: I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head …
456 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1077.24 (Matthew Henry)
… so well befit her state of subjection. A teacher of others has in that respect a superiority over them, which is not allowed the woman over the man, nor must she …
457 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1122.8 (Matthew Henry)
… over the woman, and her subjection to the man, 1 Timothy 2:13, 2:14. Adam was first formed, then Eve; she was created for the man, and not the man for the woman ( 1 Corinthians …
458 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.6 (Matthew Henry)
… practise the same things, both as aged and as Christians; the virtues and duties are common. That the aged women likewise (as well as the men) be in behaviour as …
459 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1132.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , and the woman being taken out of the man; and then upon the fall, the woman being first in the transgression, and seducing the man; here now began to be a subjection …
460 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1151.10 (Matthew Henry)
… by the law of kindness, as well as truth and justice. This, which Solomon makes a necessary part of the character of his virtuous woman, that she openeth her mouth …