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97121 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.7 (Matthew Henry)
4. That the truth of the things he had to write was confirmed by the concurring testimony of those who were competent and unexceptionable witnesses of them …
97122 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.13 (Matthew Henry)
… , Genesis 7:1. They approved themselves to him, and he was graciously pleased to accept them. It is a happy thing when those who are joined to each other in marriage …
97123 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.14 (Matthew Henry)
… 1:7. Children are a heritage of the Lord. But there are many of his heirs in a married state, that yet are denied this heritage; they are valuable desirable blessings …
97124 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.26 (Matthew Henry)
… 13:7 ), and Samuel by his mother’s vow ( 1 Samuel 1:11 ), a Nazarite for life. It is spoken of as a great instance of God’s favour to his people that he raised up of their …
97125 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.53 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Isaiah 7:14 ), and why not she?
97126 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.87 (Matthew Henry)
… 11:7. So in Mary’s case. And, if God regards her low estate, he not only thereby gives a specimen of his favour to the whole race of mankind, whom he remembers in their …
97127 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 975.122 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Exodus 7:1 ); what he said was as his mouth, what he did was as his harbinger. Prophecy had now long ceased, but in John it revived, as it had done in Samuel, who was born …
97128 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 976.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , John 7:42. The name of the place was significant. Bethlehem signifies the house of bread; a proper place for him to be born in who is the Bread of life, the Bread …
97129 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 976.12 (Matthew Henry)
… 49:7. Many suppose that, being born during the time of the taxing, he was enrolled as well as his father and mother, that it might appear how he made himself of no …
97130 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 976.14 (Matthew Henry)
… , John 7:27. The Ancient of days became an infant of a span long.
97131 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 976.48 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:7, 2:8. Note, As it is pleasant to think how many there are to whom Christ and his gospel are a savour of life unto life, so it is sad to think how many there are to whom …
97132 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 976.65 (Matthew Henry)
… , Acts 7:24, 7:25. They might have taken the hint, and been delivered then, but they understood not; so they here might have had Christ (for aught I know) to enter upon …
97133 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 3:7-3:9 ), and the particular instructions he gave to those who desired to be told their duty, Luke 3:10-3:14. II. The notice he gave them of the approach of the Messiah …
97134 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.7 (Matthew Henry)
(2.) It is dated by the governments of the viceroys that ruled in the several parts of the Holy Land under the Roman emperor, which was another badge of their servitude …
97135 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.14 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Ecclesiastes 7:13 ), yet God by his grace can make that straight which sin hath made crooked. 4. Difficulties that were hindering and discouraging in the way …
97136 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.15 (Matthew Henry)
… 3:7-3:9. In Matthew he is said to have preached these same things to many of the Pharisees and Sadducees, that came to his baptism ( Matthew 3:7-3:10 ); but here he is said …
97137 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.22 (Matthew Henry)
7. The greater professions we make of repentance, and the greater assistances and encouragements are given us to repentance, the nearer and the sorer will …
97138 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.43 (Matthew Henry)
… Samuel 7:14. I will make him my First-born, Psalms 89:27. It was also foretold that he should be God’s elect, in whom his soul delighted ( Isaiah 42:1 ); and, accordingly …
97139 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 977.45 (Matthew Henry)
… 12:7, 12:14 ); and by forty-two months, and a thousand two hundred and threescore days, Revelation 11:2, 11:3. It is the time fixed for the witnesses’ prophesying in sackcloth …
97140 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 978.7 (Matthew Henry)
3. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, by the good Spirit, who led him as a champion into the field, to fight the enemy that he was sure to conquer. His being …