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5701 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.49 (Matthew Henry)
… unanswerable arguments that Stephen urged for their conviction, and that they could find nothing to say against them. They were not pricked to the heart …
5702 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.47 (Matthew Henry)
… with arguments which they could make no reply to. In all his discourses with the Jews he was still proving that this Jesus is very Christ, is the Christ, the anointed …
5703 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.52 (Matthew Henry)
… last argument. But notice was given of this conspiracy too, and effectual care taken to secure this young champion ( Acts 9:30 ): When the brethren knew what was …
5704 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.15 (Matthew Henry)
… an argument with ourselves to abstain from all appearance of evil. So strict were the pious Jews in this matter, that the seven brethren, those glorious martyrs …
5705 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.41 (Matthew Henry)
… ? The argument is conclusive; can we deny the sign to those who have received the thing signified? Are not those on whom God has bestowed the grace of the covenant …
5706 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1030.5 (Matthew Henry)
… further argument or apology, both to justify him, and to satisfy them ( Acts 11:4 ): He rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and laid it before them in order, and …
5707 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the arguments that were offered. As in natural philosophy and medicine nothing is so satisfactory as experiments, and in law nothing is so satisfactory …
5708 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.6 (Matthew Henry)
… plausible arguments they produced for it, had shocked them, so that they began to waver concerning it. But when they saw the testimony, not only of the apostles …
5709 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.10 (Matthew Henry)
… has arguments and powers beyond those we have yet been furnished with.” [5.] “Do not only help us with thy prayers here: this will not do; thou must come over and help …
5710 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1036.16 (Matthew Henry)
… his arguments upon them cogent, and determined accordingly. Observe, [1.] The doctrine of Christ does not fear a scrutiny. We that are advocates for his cause …
5711 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 …
5712 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 …
5713 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 …
5714 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 …
5715 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 …
5716 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 …
5717 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 …
5718 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 …
5719 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 …
5720 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 …