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5541 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 …
5542 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 …
5543 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 …
5544 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 …
5545 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 …
5546 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 665.19 (Matthew Henry)
… various arguments.
5547 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 …
5548 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 …
5549 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 …
5550 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 …
5551 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 671.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the argument is the same, and urged to the same intent, with that of our Saviour ( Matthew 6:25 ), The life, the living soul that God has given us, is more than meat; the …
5552 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 671.17 (Matthew Henry)
… any argument. (4.) To show that if men give themselves to such a course of life as this it is just with God to give them up to it, to abandon them to their own heart’s …
5553 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 671.20 (Matthew Henry)
… effectual argument, that which is the great argument of his discourse, the vanity of all present things, their uncertainty and insufficiency. 1. He reminds …
5554 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.1 (Matthew Henry)
… with arguments taken from the calamities of old age ( Ecclesiastes 12:1-12:5 ) and the great change that death will make upon us, Ecclesiastes 12:6, 12:7. II. A repetition …
5555 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.5 (Matthew Henry)
2. These two arguments he enlarges upon in the following verses, only inverting the order, and shows,
5556 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 682.10 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument that Jesus is not the Messiah, because this promise is not fulfilled. But, 1. It was in part fulfilled in the peaceableness of the time in which Christ …
5557 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 684.2 (Matthew Henry)
… powerful argument against multiplying wives, these women will be bound to support themselves; they will eat bread of their own earning, and wear apparel …
5558 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 685.5 (Matthew Henry)
… all arguments were used that were proper to work either upon hope or fear; and they had all the opportunities they could desire for the performance of their …
5559 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 688.8 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument against magnifying rich men that rich men oppress us, James 2:3, 2:5. Let us be best pleased with the waters of Shiloah, that go softly, for rapid streams …
5560 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 689.19 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument with them to keep them from sin, they could not expect it should be an argument with God to protect them from judgments.