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5481 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 381.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of argument, better so than by dint of sword. We must never fly to violent methods till all the arts of persuasion have been tried in vain. War must be the ultima …
5482 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 381.9 (Matthew Henry)
… his arguments; he shall soon find himself overpowered with numbers, surrounded on every side with the instruments of death, and then let him boast of his religion …
5483 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 398.7 (Matthew Henry)
… .] What arguments he uses to persuade them to do this. First, “You are children of Israel, and therefore stand related, stand obliged, to the God of Israel, from whom …
5484 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 439.18 (Matthew Henry)
… his argument.
5485 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 441.9 (Matthew Henry)
… another argument to prove Job a hypocrite, and will have not only his impatience under his afflictions to be evidence against him but even his afflictions …
5486 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 443.21 (Matthew Henry)
… solid arguments, which shall carry their own evidence along with them, I am ready to acknowledge my error and own myself in a fault: Teach me, and I will hold my …
5487 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 445.4 (Matthew Henry)
… own argument; for, soon after, he blessed his latter end more than his beginning. Or, 2. As designed to direct and encourage Job, that he might not thus run himself …
5488 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 446.4 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. (1.) God can ask a thousand puzzling questions which those that quarrel with him, and arraign his proceedings …
5489 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 446.14 (Matthew Henry)
… of arguments. “I dare not try the merits of the cause. If I speak of judgment, and insist upon my right, who will set me a time to plead ? There is no higher power to which …
5490 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 447.12 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument for mercy: Thou hast made me, new—make me; I am thine, save me. Job knew not how to reconcile God’s former favours and his present frowns, but concludes …
5491 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 450.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the arguments you accumulate but like so many heaps of dirt.”
5492 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 452.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of argument! But how simple do they look afterwards, upon the review! (2.) As opposing the stream of antiquity, a venerable name, under the shade of which all contending …
5493 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.1 (Matthew Henry)
… his argument; but, when he had done, he gave him a fair answer, in which, I. He complains of unkind usage. And very unkindly he takes it. 1. That his comforters added …
5494 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.3 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument against him to prove him a wicked man. They should have pleaded for him his integrity, and helped him to take the comfort of that under his affliction …
5495 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 458.16 (Matthew Henry)
… their arguments against Job and to show that no certain judgment can be made of men’s character by their outward condition.
5496 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 460.6 (Matthew Henry)
… with arguments to prove it.” We may apply this to the duty of prayer, in which we have boldness to enter into the holiest and to come even to the footstool of the …
5497 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 469.5 (Matthew Henry)
… his arguments, and yet they would not yield, but, right or wrong, would run him down; and this was not fair. Seldom is a quarrel begun, and more seldom is a quarrel …
5498 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 469.8 (Matthew Henry)
… their arguments. He attended to them with diligence and care, and this, (1.) Though they were slow, and took up a great deal of time in searching out what to say. Though …
5499 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 469.12 (Matthew Henry)
… your argument against Job conclusive and irrefragable, and that Job cannot be convinced and humbled by any other argument than this of yours, That God casteth …
5500 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 469.13 (Matthew Henry)
… their arguments, nor go upon their principles: “ Neither will I answer him with your speeches —not with the same matter, for should I only say what has been said …