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6421 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 894.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of spirit they are of; those did not who wished for fire from heaven upon the city that did not receive them, much less did Jonah, who wished for fire from heaven …
6422 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 896.3 (Matthew Henry)
… is evil, and the events of it are very humbling and mortifying, and such as will bring down the stoutest spirit. 3. He finds them very merry and jovial, and therefore …
6423 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 896.7 (Matthew Henry)
… Spirit straitened ? In silencing the Lord’s prophets you do what you can to silence his Spirit too; but do you think you can do it? Can you make the Spirit of God …
6424 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 901.2 (Matthew Henry)
… do evil with both hands well (so some read it); they do evil with a great deal of art and dexterity; they praise themselves for doing it so well. Others read it thus …
6425 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 902.2 (Matthew Henry)
… blessed Spirit by whom their prophecies were indited.
6426 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 903.5 (Matthew Henry)
… . Their spirits shall melt away like wax before the fire; their knees shall smite together (as Belshazzar’s did, in his agony, Daniel 5:6 ), so that they shall not …
6427 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 915.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of our God. Now observe here, 1. The impurity wherein Joshua appeared ( Zechariah 3:3 ): He was clothed, not only in coarse, but in filthy garments, such as …
6428 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 920.11 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil spirit towards him, a spirit of contradiction to his laws, God sent among them an evil spirit, to make them vexatious one to another. Those that throw …
6429 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 925.4 (Matthew Henry)
… unclean spirit, the prophets that are under the influence of the unclean spirit, to pass out of the land. The devil is an unclean spirit; sin and uncleanness …
6430 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 926.15 (Matthew Henry)
… lying spirit from the Lord, so Abimelech and the men of Shechem were divided, and so destroyed, by an evil spirit from the Lord, Judges 9:23. Note, Those that are …
6431 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 933.48 (Matthew Henry)
… .] The Spirit of Christ is a dove-like spirit; not like a silly dove, without heart ( Hosea 7:11 ), but like an innocent dove, without gall. The Spirit descended, not in …
6432 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 934.3 (Matthew Henry)
… good Spirit witness to our adoption, that will furnish us with an answer to all the suggestions of the evil spirit, designed either to debauch or disquiet …
6433 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 934.15 (Matthew Henry)
… good Spirit, as the Comforter of the brethren, witnesses that they are the children of God; the evil spirit, as the accuser of the brethren, does all he can to shake …
6434 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of the Lord, Isaiah 61:1. He taught them, what was the evil they should abhor, and what was the good they should abide and abound in; for Christianity …
6435 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 936.74 (Matthew Henry)
… calls evil good and good evil ( Isaiah 5:20 ); therefore it concerns us to understand things aright, to get our eyes anointed with eye-salve.
6436 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 937.4 (Matthew Henry)
… a spirit of revenge, and a desire to do mischief. We must not judge of a man’s state by a single act, nor of what he is in himself by what he is to us, because in our own …
6437 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 937.21 (Matthew Henry)
… our spirits, an ever-loving, ever-living Father. The bowels of Fathers yearn even towards undutiful children, towards prodigals, as David’s toward Absalom …
6438 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 938.47 (Matthew Henry)
… the evil spirits with his word. There may be much of Satan’s agency, by the divine permission, in those diseases of which natural causes may be assigned, as in …
6439 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 938.70 (Matthew Henry)
… of evil spirits in their enmity to man. Observe, concerning this legion of devils, What work they made where they were, and where they went .
6440 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 938.82 (Matthew Henry)
… , of evil spirits, that, if they were not hereby convinced, they might be left inexcusable in their infidelity. We see not the wind, but it would be absurd to deny …