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5441 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 132.18 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument with ourselves to walk so in every thing as to give no occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, 1 Timothy 6:1 .
5442 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 134.19 (Matthew Henry)
… .) The argument they insist on; it is much the same with that which Abraham urged in his intercession for Sodom ( Genesis 18:23 ): Wilt thou destroy the righteous …
5443 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 158.1 (Matthew Henry)
… pressing arguments, repeated again and again, and set before them in the most moving and affectionate manner imaginable, Deuteronomy 4:1-4:40. II. The appointing …
5444 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 158.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and argument to enforce his exhortations.
5445 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 158.10 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument against their making images of God, he urges it very much upon them that when God made himself known to them at Horeb he did it by a voice of words …
5446 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 158.13 (Matthew Henry)
… or arguments with which he backs these exhortations. How does he order the cause before them, and fill his mouth with arguments! He has a great deal to say on …
5447 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 158.14 (Matthew Henry)
… same argument urged upon us as a reason why we should serve God with reverence ( Hebrews 12:28, 12:29 ), because though he is our God, and a rejoicing light to those …
5448 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 158.21 (Matthew Henry)
… . This argument he begins with ( Deuteronomy 4:1 ): That you may live, and go in and possess the land; and this he concludes with ( Deuteronomy 4:40 ): That it may go well …
5449 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 158.23 (Matthew Henry)
Now let all these arguments be laid together, and then say whether religion has not reason on its side. None cast off the government of their God but those that have first abandoned the understanding of a man.
5450 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 158.24 (Matthew Henry)
… powerful argument for obedience.
5451 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 162.1 (Matthew Henry)
… or arguments to enforce them, that what they heard so often might abide with them. In this chapter Moses gives them, I. General exhortations to obedience, Deuteronomy …
5452 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 162.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of arguments for obedience; and they were recorded on purpose that they might be remembered. As the feast of the passover was a memorial of their deliverance …
5453 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 162.9 (Matthew Henry)
II. He directs them to look forward to Canaan, into which God was now bringing them. Look which way we will, both our reviews and our prospects will furnish us with arguments for obedience. Observe,
5454 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 164.7 (Matthew Henry)
… powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in like an orator, with an appeal to his auditors And now, Israel, what doth the Lord …
5455 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 164.10 (Matthew Henry)
… . Two arguments are here urged to enforce this duty:—(1.) God’s common providence, which extends itself to all nations of men, they being all made of one blood. God …
5456 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 165.2 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument with themselves why they should serve God. Thou shalt keep his charge, that is, the oracles of his word and ordinances of his worship, with which …
5457 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 165.12 (Matthew Henry)
… his arguments for obedience in two words, the blessing and the curse ( Deuteronomy 11:26 ), that is, the rewards and the punishments, as they stand in the promises …
5458 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 172.9 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument like that of the apostle against Christians walking as the Gentiles walked ( Ephesians 4:17, 4:18, 4:20 ): You have not so learned Christ. “It is true these …
5459 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 184.14 (Matthew Henry)
… are arguments to us to continue in love and obedience to the God of our mercies.
5460 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 186.44 (Matthew Henry)
… . The arguments he uses to persuade them to make religion their business and to persevere in it are, (1.) The vast importance of the things themselves which he …