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6361 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 721.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit is sent, and ministers are employed by him, both to convince and to comfort. And however this might be primarily intended for the conviction of Babylonians …
6362 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 723.5 (Matthew Henry)
… whose spirits God stirred up to go to Jerusalem should be fetched in from all parts; divine grace should reach those that lay most remote, and at the greatest …
6363 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.27 (Matthew Henry)
… familiar spirits whispered and muttered ( Isaiah 8:19 ); but God delivered his law from the top of Mount Sinai before all the thousands of Israel, in distinct …
6364 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 739.23 (Matthew Henry)
… and Spirit to his church and people throughout all generations. God’s giving the Spirit to those that ask him includes the giving of them all good things …
6365 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 740.16 (Matthew Henry)
… ; their spirits shall be broken, and their condition shall be so mean and miserable that they shall be glad to be obliged to those whom they have most studied …
6366 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 745.8 (Matthew Henry)
… Holy Spirit, as if they would contrive how to make him their enemy: They provoke me to anger continually to my face. They cared not what affront they gave to God …
6367 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 745.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the evil spirits that haunted the sepulchres. 4. They violated the laws of God about their meat, and broke through the distinction between clean and unclean …
6368 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 747.10 (Matthew Henry)
… extraordinary spirit of prophecy that Jeremiah had, else how can be have the power that Jeremiah had by virtue of that spirit? And yet the power that Jeremiah …
6369 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.26 (Matthew Henry)
… of spirit; but those that dwell in God have the lines fallen to them in pleasant places. 4. Instead of being wrought upon by these, they had grown intolerably …
6370 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 752.5 (Matthew Henry)
… or spirits, in their estates or reputation. Note, He that is the common Parent of mankind regards and resents, and sooner or later will revenge, the mischiefs …
6371 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 753.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirits of his ministers and people from praying for them, and gives them to see their case so desperate that they have no heart to speak a good word for …
6372 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 756.5 (Matthew Henry)
… no spirit in them (so the word is); they are not animated, or inhabited, as they are supposed to be, by any divine spirit or numen—divinity. They are so far from being …
6373 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 756.15 (Matthew Henry)
… receiving evil at the hand of God, Job 2:10. But to say, “This is an evil, and I must bear it, because I cannot help it,” is but a brutal patience, and argues a want of those …
6374 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 757.11 (Matthew Henry)
… did evil yet they rejoiced and gloried in this, made a mighty noise of this. And when their evil was (so the margin reads it), when trouble came upon them, they rejoiced …
6375 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 758.17 (Matthew Henry)
… his Spirit compel them to come out and by his power compel their task-masters to let them go, as he plucked Israel out of Egypt. 2. He would bring upon them the same …
6376 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 759.9 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil spirit into families and neighbourhoods (as Judges 9:23 ), which made them jealous of, and spiteful towards, one another; so that the fathers and sons went …
6377 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 762.4 (Matthew Henry)
… their spirits, give wine to those that are of heavy heart for their father or mother, that it may be some comfort to them to find that, though they have lost their …
6378 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 763.6 (Matthew Henry)
… without spirit, which is a dead thing; he is mortal and dying as flesh, which soon putrefies and corrupts, and is continually wasting. Nay, he is false and sinful …
6379 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 764.24 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirit of prophecy, in the foresight of the ruin certainly coming upon his persecutors, might pray such prayers as we may not; and, if we think by this example …
6380 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 766.18 (Matthew Henry)
… these evil spirits to speak. When the heart is hot, let the tongue be bridled, Psalms 39:1, 39:2. 3. See the weakness even of good men, who are but men at the best. See how …