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5721 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 …

5722 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 …

5723 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 …

5724 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 …

5725 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 …

5728 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 .

5729 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 …

5730 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 …

5731 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1052.13 (Matthew Henry)

… , the argument holds very strongly; if God justified and reconciled us when we were enemies, and put himself to so much charge to do it, much more will he save us …

5732 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1053.1 (Matthew Henry)

… of argument, presses the absolute necessity of sanctification and a holy life, as the inseparable fruit and companion of justification; for, wherever Jesus …

5733 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1053.2 (Matthew Henry)

… or arguments to enforce those exhortations, which show the necessity of it.

5734 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1053.6 (Matthew Henry)

… or arguments here used to show the necessity of sanctification. There is such an antipathy in our hearts by nature to holiness that it is no easy matter to …

5735 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.1 (Matthew Henry)

… an argument to press upon us sanctification, Romans 7:1-7:6. II. The excellency and usefulness of the law asserted and proved from the apostle’s own experience …

5736 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.2 (Matthew Henry)

… this argument is here further insisted upon and explained ( Romans 7:6 ): We are delivered from the law. What is meant by this? And how is it an argument why sin should …

5737 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.12 (Matthew Henry)

… other argument, love to our bodies should make us hate sin, because it is such an enemy to our bodies. The death even of the bodies of the saints is a remaining …

5738 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.23 (Matthew Henry)

… the arguments on both sides, and thus at last resolves the point. O how vastly different is the sentence of the word from the sentiment of the world concerning …

5740 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1058.24 (Matthew Henry)

… his argument ( Romans 11:24 ): “If thou wast grafted into a good olive, that was wild by nature, much more shall these that were the natural branches, and may therefore …