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6181 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 …
6182 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 …
6183 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 …
6184 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 …
6185 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 …
6186 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 …
6187 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 …
6188 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 …
6189 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 …
6190 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 …
6191 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 4.5 (Matthew Henry)
… apostate spirit, and wearing his colours.
6192 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 …
6193 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 …
6194 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 …
6195 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 …
6196 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 …
6197 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 …
6198 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 …
6199 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 …
6200 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 …