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6381 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 767.13 (Matthew Henry)
… two evils to choose the less; and that less evil, a shameful and wretched captivity, is all the life now left for them to propose to themselves. He that abides …
6382 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 768.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirit of building, was a man of an excellent spirit, a better man than he, and did better for himself and his family. Those children that despise their parents …
6383 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 769.11 (Matthew Henry)
… their evil way in general and from all the particular evil of their doings. They would have encouraged and assisted the reformation of manners, would have …
6384 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 769.16 (Matthew Henry)
… , whose spirits are veiled in flesh, is as clearly seen by him as what is in the mind of angels, those unveiled spirits above that surround his throne. The power …
6385 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 772.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of God and the kingdom of God from them, and declining churches with the removal of the candlestick, we say no more than what has been said many a time …
6386 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 773.4 (Matthew Henry)
… mean spirit, but the prophet recommends it as that of a meek spirit, which yields to necessity, and by a quiet submission to the hardest turns of Providence …
6387 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 775.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of evil; even that which seems evil is designed for good. His thoughts are all working towards the expected end, which he will give in due time. The end they expect …
6388 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 775.12 (Matthew Henry)
… turbulent spirits upon the public peace, and stirring up the people to revolt and rebel. So much of their wickedness shall then be detected, and in such a wretched …
6389 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 778.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirits of all flesh, and, if Israel were cast off, could raise up a people to his name out of some other nation. If he be the God of all flesh, he may well ask, Isa …
6390 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 778.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit that dwells in them being the Spirit of love. Though they may have different apprehensions about minor things, they shall be all one in the great …
6391 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 784.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of spirits; souls are his workmanship, and they are more fearfully and wonderfully made than bodies are. The soul both of the greatest prince and of the poorest …
6392 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 784.7 (Matthew Henry)
… fretful spirits indeed that cannot bear to be laughed at for that which is both their duty and their interest. 3. Though it had been really the greatest personal …
6393 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 786.9 (Matthew Henry)
… David’s spirit. 3. That Johanan, a brisk and active man, having got scent of this plot, informed Gedaliah of it, yet taking it for granted he could not but know of …
6394 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 787.7 (Matthew Henry)
… quiet spirit, was a great blessing to them; but Johanan, who was of a fierce and restless spirit, was set over them for their hurt, and to complete their ruin, even …
6395 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 790.17 (Matthew Henry)
… a spirit of prophecy, and that was to rectify their mistake (a wilful mistake it was) concerning the calamities they had been under and the true intent and meaning …
6396 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 795.8 (Matthew Henry)
… no spirit left them, they are like the troubled sea, that cannot be quiet ( Isaiah 57:20 ), or like men in a storm at sea ( Psalms 107:26 ); or the sorrow that begins in the …
6397 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.13 (Matthew Henry)
… not evil and good proceed ? Yes, certainly they do; and it is more emphatically expressed in the original: Do not this evil, and this good, proceed out of the mouth …
6398 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 802.11 (Matthew Henry)
… tender spirits care not to do. There is nothing that will make prophets and priests to be abhorred so much as a spirit of persecution.
6399 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 804.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit is to go (whatever God wills and purposes to be done and brought to pass) thither their spirit is to go; that is, the angels, knowingly and designedly …
6400 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 816.4 (Matthew Henry)
… own spirit ( Ezekiel 13:3 ); they delivered that as a message from God which was the product either of their subtle invention, to serve a turn for themselves, or …