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8281 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 473.25 (Matthew Henry)

… plenty runs, I will hear the heavens and they shall hear the earth. This intimates to us that every good gift is from above, from him who is both Father of lights …

8282 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 474.2 (Matthew Henry)

… would run into a corner, or under a bed, for fear of them. Those who are very much astonished, we say, are thunder-struck. Even good people think thunder and lightning …

8283 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 474.11 (Matthew Henry)

… and run aground, not for want of matter, but for want of words. As we must always begin with fear and trembling, lest we speak amiss ( Deut. Deo etiam vera dicere periculosum …

8284 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 476.2 (Matthew Henry)

God here shows Job what little acquaintance he had with the untamed creatures that run wild in the deserts and live at large, but are the care of the divine Providence. As,

8285 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 476.10 (Matthew Henry)

… them, runs so fast that a horseman at full speed cannot overtake her: She scorneth the horse and his rider. Those that are least under the law of natural affection …

8286 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 476.11 (Matthew Henry)

… . For running, drawing, and carrying, no creature that is ordinarily in the service of man has so much strength as the horse has, nor is of so stout and bold a spirit …

8287 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 478.3 (Matthew Henry)

… to run through his gills, on which to carry him home. 2. That he could not make him his prisoner, nor force him to cry for quarter, or surrender himself at discretion …

8288 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 479.11 (Matthew Henry)

… be run down by the malice of hell or earth. If God says, Well done, good and faithful servant, it is of little consequence who says otherwise. [2.] He owns that he had …

8289 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 481.6 (Matthew Henry)

… shall run down religion and carry the day. (3.) It is a resolute and obstinate opposition. They set themselves, set their faces as a flint and their hearts as an …

8290 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 481.23 (Matthew Henry)

… we run upon if we refuse and reject Christ: “ Kiss the Son; for it is at your peril if you do not.” [1.] “It will be a great provocation to him. Do it, lest he be angry .” The Father …

8291 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 483.6 (Matthew Henry)

… to run him down. It is at their peril if they offend one of these little ones, whom God has set apart for himself, Matthew 18:6. God reckons that those who touch them …

8292 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 486.12 (Matthew Henry)

… and runs towards God and heaven, then the wickedness of the wicked comes to an end. When there is a general reformation of manners, when atheists and profane …

8294 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 490.1 (Matthew Henry)

… to run his country. “No,” says he, “I trust in God, and therefore will keep my ground.” Observe, I. How he represents the temptation, and perhaps parleys with it, Psalms …

8295 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 490.12 (Matthew Henry)

… be run down and trampled upon, yet God does and will own them, and favour them, and smile upon them, and that is the reason why God will severely reckon with persecutors …

8296 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 491.6 (Matthew Henry)

… to run down all that is just and sacred, then the times are very bad, when proud sinners have arrived at such a pitch of impiety as to say, “ With our tongue will we …

8297 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 493.10 (Matthew Henry)

… people run into all manner of wickedness, even the worst, is because they do not call upon God for his grace. What good can be expected from those that live without …

8298 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 496.13 (Matthew Henry)

… and run down by them. Let them not have their will against me; let them not triumph over me.”

8299 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 496.16 (Matthew Henry)

… , and run me down.” (1.) “They are very spiteful and malicious; they are my deadly enemies, that thirst after my blood, my heart’s blood— enemies against the soul ,” so the …

8300 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 497.16 (Matthew Henry)

… of running through them; if a wall, he made nothing of leaping over it ( Psalms 18:29 ); if ramparts and bulwarks, he soon mounted them, and by divine assistance set …