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5701 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1036.41 (Matthew Henry)
… —an argument to the man, and therefore the apostle here quotes a saying of one of the Greek poets, Aratus, a native of Cilicia, Paul’s countryman, who, in his Phenomena …
5702 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.6 (Matthew Henry)
… dispute argumentatively with them, but he followed his arguments with affectionate persuasions, begging of them for God’s sake, for their own soul’s sake …
5703 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1037.41 (Matthew Henry)
… their arguments were discovered, so that they had nothing to say in defence of the opposition they made to the gospel; their mouths were stopped, and their …
5704 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1038.15 (Matthew Henry)
… preached argumentatively: he disputed; gave reasons, scripture-reasons, for what he preached, and answered objections, for the convincing of men’s judgments …
5705 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1038.55 (Matthew Henry)
… and argument; if they can but get that down, the idol in the temple will fall of course. Those that preach against idolatrous churches have truth on their side …
5706 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1039.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and arguments. 2. He staid three months in Greece ( Acts 20:2, 20:3 ), that is, in Achaia, as some think, for thither also he purposed to go, to Corinth, and thereabouts ( Acts …
5707 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1040.35 (Matthew Henry)
… most argumentative or affecting discourses. They saw it was in vain to think of pleasing men that would be pleased with nothing else but the rooting out of …
5708 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1040.41 (Matthew Henry)
… . The arguments wherewith they exasperated the people against him were popular, but very false and unjust. They cried out, “ Men of Israel, help. If you are indeed …
5709 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1041.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the arguments he had urged in his own defence, or offering to make any answer to them, they cried out with a confused noise, “ Away with such a fellow as this from …
5710 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1042.18 (Matthew Henry)
… strange argument which he makes use of to encourage him: As thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome. One would think this …
5711 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1045.6 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument ad hominem—such as Agrippa would feel, that he was not such a man as they represented him to be. Though he counted it but loss that he might win Christ …
5712 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1045.14 (Matthew Henry)
… of arguments, but was brought into the highest degree of an assurance of it, immediately from the highest degree of prejudice against it, by which it appeared …
5713 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1045.44 (Matthew Henry)
… his argument, concludes with a compliment, or rather a pious wish that all his hearers were Christians, and this wish turned into a prayer: euxaimen an to Theo …
5714 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1050.8 (Matthew Henry)
… . The argument is much the same with that of Abraham ( Genesis 18:25 ): Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right ? No doubt, he shall. If he were not infinitely just …
5715 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1050.20 (Matthew Henry)
… . The argument is very plain: we can never be justified and saved by the law that we have broken. A convicted traitor can never come off by pleading the statute …
5716 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1051.1 (Matthew Henry)
… more argumentatively.
5717 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1051.2 (Matthew Henry)
… several arguments.
5718 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1051.3 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument from it: it would be absurd for him that glorieth to glory in any but the Lord .
5719 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1051.5 (Matthew Henry)
… his argument ( Romans 4:4, 4:5 ): Abraham’s reward was God himself; so he had told him but just before ( Genesis 15:1 ), I am thy exceeding great reward. Now, if Abraham had …
5720 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1051.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the arguments of sense, and reason, and experience, which in such cases usually beget and support hope, were against him; no second causes smiled upon him, nor …