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6161 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1168.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the evil spirit and temper of it; called above the world, to higher and better things, to heaven, things unseen and eternal; called from sin to Christ, from vanity …
6162 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1168.4 (Matthew Henry)
… seditious spirit; forgetting that the powers that be, are ordained of God, Romans 13:1. As to the contest about the body of Moses, it appears that Satan wished …
6163 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1168.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirit of holiness, which whoever has not, does not belong to Christ. The grace of faith is most holy, as it works by love, purifies the heart, and overcomes …
6164 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1169.4 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil-doer, but for the testimony of Jesus, for bearing witness to Christ as the Immanuel, the Saviour; and the Spirit of glory and of God rested upon this persecuted …
6165 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1170.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and Spirit is slighted, we may expect the presence of his displeasure. Encouraging mention is made of what was good among them. Indifference as to truth and …
6166 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1170.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of Christ, come down from heaven into the soul, for its support. This is hidden from the rest of the world. The new name is the name of adoption; when the …
6167 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1171.2 (Matthew Henry)
… Holy Spirit with all his powers, graces, and operations. Hypocrisy, and lamentable decay in religion, are sins charged upon Sardis, by One who knew that church …
6168 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1173.3 (Matthew Henry)
… own spirits, and to overcome the world, and the evil one; and he makes them priests; giving them access to himself, and liberty to offer up spiritual sacrifices …
6169 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1188.3 (Matthew Henry)
… Holy Spirit, fallen man will be new-created; and faith and holiness will as certainly prevail, as unbelief and unholiness now do. We may easily perceive what …
6170 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1189.3 (Matthew Henry)
… Holy Spirit, or the personal excellences of the Lord Jesus Christ. Heaven has gates; there is a free admission to all that are sanctified; they shall not find …
6171 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 4.5 (Matthew Henry)
… apostate spirit, and wearing his colours.
6172 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 4.31 (Matthew Henry)
… pitiful spirit; it is said of those whose courage has departed from them that they lick the dust like a serpent, Micah 7:17. How sad it is that the serpent’s curse …
6173 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 5.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit; and so it is now, more or less ( Galatians 4:29 ), and so it will be till the war shall end in the eternal salvation of all the saints and the eternal perdition …
6174 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 17.9 (Matthew Henry)
… servile spirits, when favoured and advanced either by God or man, are apt to grow haughty and insolent, and to forget their place and origin. See Proverbs 29 …
6175 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 20.25 (Matthew Henry)
… , restrain evil hearts from evil practices: one would wonder how the fire of lust could possibly kindle upon those, who had so lately been the eye-witnesses …
6176 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 40.9 (Matthew Henry)
… unclean spirit gets possession and dominion in a soul, it is as with the possessed of the devils ( Luke 7:27, 7:29 ), the clothes of modesty are thrown off and the bands …
6177 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 43.6 (Matthew Henry)
… a spirit of revenge, that he might now trample upon those who had formerly trampled upon him; he was not a man of that temper. But, 1. It was to enrich his own dreams …
6178 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 46.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirit of the living creature! Let us therefore judge nothing before the time. 3. God often works by contraries. The envy and contention of brethren threaten …
6179 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 50.3 (Matthew Henry)
… and spirit to support the honours and privileges of their birth will soon lose them, and retain only the name of them. The character fastened upon Reuben, for …
6180 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.6 (Matthew Henry)
… excellent spirit Joseph was of, and learn of him to render good for evil. He did not tell them they were upon their good behaviour, and he would be kind to them …