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5521 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 635.1 (Matthew Henry)
… by arguments borrowed from our secular interests, for it is not only represented as damning in the other world, but as impoverishing in this.
5522 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 635.20 (Matthew Henry)
… its arguments it is a light, which our understandings must subscribe to; it is a lamp to our eyes for discovery, and so to our feet for direction. The word of God …
5523 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 635.26 (Matthew Henry)
2. Divers arguments Solomon here urges to enforce this caution against the sin of whoredom.
5524 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 644.1 (Matthew Henry)
… ; hard arguments do best with soft words. 2. How the peace will be broken, that we, for our parts, may do nothing towards the breaking of it. Nothing stirs up anger …
5525 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 645.22 (Matthew Henry)
… of argument, without which, let a thing be ever so well worded, it will be rejected, when it comes to be considered, as trifling. Quaint expressions please the …
5526 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 647.17 (Matthew Henry)
… by arguments which are endless, or concessions which they are loth to stoop to, whereas it is no disparagement to a man to acquiesce in the determination of …
5527 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 650.17 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument against a voluptuous luxurious life, taken from the ruin it brings upon men’s temporal interests. Here is 1. The description of an epicure: He loves …
5528 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 651.19 (Matthew Henry)
II. Arguments to enforce this exhortation. Consider,
5529 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 652.14 (Matthew Henry)
… . An argument to enforce this call, taken from the great comfort which this will be to their parents, Proverbs 23:24, 23:25. Note, 1. It is the duty of children to study …
5530 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 652.20 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument against this sin from the expensiveness of it and its tendency to impoverish men: and if men will not be deterred from it by the ruin it brings on …
5531 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 653.6 (Matthew Henry)
… any argument be convinced of the contrary; so those that have experienced the power of truth and godliness are abundantly satisfied of the pleasure of both …
5532 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 653.8 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument ad hominem—addressed to the individual : “Thou canst not do a greater kindness to thy enemy, when he has fallen, than to rejoice in it; for them, to cross …
5533 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 655.4 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument, an answer that, and suit thy answer to his case. If he think, because thou dost not answer him, that what he says is unanswerable, then give him an answer …
5534 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 663.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the argument taken from the judgment to come ( Ecclesiastes 3:17 ) by pleading that there is not another life after this, but that when man dies there is an end …
5535 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 664.7 (Matthew Henry)
… sluggard’s argument for the excuse of himself in his idleness. He folds his hands together, and abuses and misapplies a good truth for his justification …
5536 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 665.19 (Matthew Henry)
… various arguments.
5537 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 668.5 (Matthew Henry)
… . What arguments are here used to engage us to be subject to the higher powers; they are much the same with those which St. Paul uses, Romans 13:1 (1.) We must needs be …
5538 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 668.6 (Matthew Henry)
… or arguments, by ourselves, or by any friend: There is no man that has power over his own spirit, to retain it, when it is summoned to return to God who gave it. It cannot …
5539 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 669.26 (Matthew Henry)
… close arguments are worth a great many big words; and those will strike sail to fair reasoning who will answer those that hector and insult according to their …
5540 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 671.7 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument against giving to the poor, because they know not what hard times may come when they may want themselves; whereas we should therefore the rather …