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92621 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1093.14 (Matthew Henry)
… and faith of Christ, and appointed to the office of an apostle, Galatians 1:15, 1:16. This was not done in an ordinary way, nor by ordinary means, but in an extraordinary …
92622 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1093.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith which he once destroyed, they glorified God because of him; thanksgivings were rendered by many unto God on that behalf; the very report of this mighty …
92623 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.1 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith in Christ, without the works of the law, which it was the main design of this epistle to establish, and which he enlarges more upon in the two following …
92624 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.4 (Matthew Henry)
… Christian faith, but a preacher of it too, yet he was by birth a Gentile and uncircumcised, and therefore, by making him his companion, it appeared that their …
92625 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the faithfulness and prudence of our great apostle. (1.) His faithfulness in giving them a free and fair account of the doctrine which he had all along preached …
92626 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith of Christ. There is no colour of reason for the supposition that Peter was bishop of Antioch. If he had, surely Paul would not have withstood him in …
92627 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.13 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law (though some think that all he says to the end of the chapter is what he said to Peter at Antioch), which doctrine …
92628 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith of Jesus Christ, even we ourselves have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law. And …
92629 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.15 (Matthew Henry)
… true faith live by that faith; and the great thing which faith fastens upon is Christ’s loving us and giving himself for us. The great evidence of Christ’s …
92630 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1094.16 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith in Christ, without the works of the law (which he asserted, and others opposed), he avoided two great difficulties, which the contrary opinion was loaded …
92631 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith of the gospel, and endeavours, from several considerations, to impress them with a sense of it. II. He proves the doctrine which he had reproved them …
92632 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the faith of Christ, still continued to seek for justification by the works of the law; that is, who depended upon their own obedience to the moral precepts …
92633 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith, that is, the preaching of the doctrine of faith in Christ as the only way of justification? This, if they would say the truth, they were obliged to own …
92634 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.6 (Matthew Henry)
… to faith in Christ, in order to their justification, which could end in nothing but their shame and disappointment: for this, instead of being an improvement …
92635 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith, whether the doctrine that was preached by them, and confirmed by the miraculous gifts and operations of the Spirit, was that of justification by …
92636 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.8 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith without the works of the law. This he does several ways.
92637 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.9 (Matthew Henry)
… Abraham. They are blessed with Abraham the father of the faithful, by the promise made to him, and therefore by faith as he was. It was through faith in the …
92638 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.10 (Matthew Henry)
… by faith fastening on the gospel, because the law condemns us. If we put ourselves upon trial in that court, and stand to the sentence of it, we are certainly cast …
92639 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of faith —that says nothing concerning faith in the business of justification, nor does it give life to those who believe; but the language of it is, The man that …
92640 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1095.12 (Matthew Henry)
… Faith had the precedence of the law, for Abraham was justified by faith. It was a promise that he built upon, and promises are the proper objects of faith. God …