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5441 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 …
5442 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 …
5443 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,
5444 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 …
5445 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 …
5446 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 …
5447 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 …
5448 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 …
5449 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.
5450 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 …
5451 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 187.21 (Matthew Henry)
… Saviour’s argument from it, Luke 20:37. So that, when he prays for the good-will of him that dwelt in the bush, he has an eye to the covenant then and there renewed …
5452 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 189.9 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument against covetousness, Hebrews 13:5; Be content with such things as you have, for he hath said, I will never leave thee. (3.) That he should have victory …
5453 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 205.5 (Matthew Henry)
… own argument, that they were a great people. “If so, you are the better able to help yourselves, and have the less reason to expect help from others. If thou hast …
5454 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 211.6 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument with himself to give them this charge, because being old he could expect to be but a little while with them, to advise and instruct them, and therefore …
5455 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 211.15 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument why they should be faithful to him ( Joshua 23:14 ): “ I am going the way of all the earth, I am old and dying.” To die is to go a journey, a journey to our long home …
5456 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.16 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument ad hominem — directed to the man: Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee ? He not only appeals to the common resolutions of men …
5457 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.18 (Matthew Henry)
… these arguments Jephthah justifies himself and his own cause (“I have not sinned against thee in taking or keeping what I have no right to; if I had, I would instantly …
5458 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.24 (Matthew Henry)
… powerful argument will it be against the sins we have by those vows bound ourselves out from, what a strong inducement to the duties we have hereby bound ourselves …
5459 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 245.16 (Matthew Henry)
… Samuel’s arguments against it, nor deny the force of them, and yet they grow more violent in their request, and more insolent. Before it was, “Pray, make us a king …
5460 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 254.20 (Matthew Henry)
… his arguments and encouragements thence, how much soever he had an eye to it in his own mind. But he argues from experience; though he was but a youth, and never …