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961 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 527.12 (Matthew Henry)
… tenable.” Calvin observes here that when they are directed to transmit to posterity a particular account of the towers, and bulwarks, and palaces of Jerusalem …
962 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.6 (Matthew Henry)
… perdition. Calvin speaks of it as a detestable piece of sacrilege, common in his time among Franciscan friars and other monks, that if any one had malice against …
963 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 594.11 (Matthew Henry)
… it. Calvin complains that profane wicked people, in his days, perverted this scripture, and made a jest of it, which some in our days do, arguing, in banter, that …
964 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 691.10 (Matthew Henry)
… man. Calvin understands it of their willing submission to the ministers of Christ, who are to instruct with meekness and not to use any coercive power, but …
965 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 817.6 (Matthew Henry)
… (as Calvin upon this place reminds us) that God’s judgments are a great deep, that we are incompetent judges of them, and that, though we cannot account for the …
966 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 858.14 (Matthew Henry)
… (says Calvin), the antichrist, the papal kingdom (says Mr. Joseph Mede), that wicked one, which, as this little horn, is to be consumed by the brightness of Christ’s …
967 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 954.113 (Matthew Henry)
… . When Calvin was persuaded to remit his ministerial labours, he answered, with some resentment, “What, would you have my Master find me idle?” (2.) Perseverance in …
968 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 955.19 (Matthew Henry)
… . So Calvin. But I think it is rather to be taken as we have opened it.
969 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 955.115 (Matthew Henry)
… associates. Calvin notes upon this, that therefore the torment of the damned is said to be prepared for the devil and his angels, to cut off all hope of escaping …
970 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 956.104 (Matthew Henry)
… groans. Calvin’s devout remark upon this is worth transcribing, Utile est seorsim orare, tunc enim magis familiariter sese denudat fidelis animus, et simplicius …
971 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 976.65 (Matthew Henry)
… (says Calvin) of his divine wisdom and knowledge. Methinks this public appearance of Christ in the temple, as a teacher, was like Moses’s early attempt to deliver …
972 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 979.36 (Matthew Henry)
… them.” Calvin takes it as an admonition to the Pharisees not to boast of their fasting, and the noise and show they made with it, nor to despise his disciples because …
973 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1000.9 (Matthew Henry)
… saints. Calvin observes how generous the maker of the feast was, though he seems to have been but of small substance, to invite four or five strangers more than …
974 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1000.13 (Matthew Henry)
… (as Calvin suggests) would have him make up the want of wine with some holy profitable discourse. But, most probably, she looked for a miracle; for she knew he was …
975 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.59 (Matthew Henry)
… ; and Calvin has a note upon the difference between this and John 8:24; where it is plural, tais hamartiais, that here it is meant especially of the sin of unbelief …
976 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.162 (Matthew Henry)
… heaven. Calvin mentions this sense of it, and does not much disallow it. Note, The longings of gracious souls after Jesus Christ will be fully satisfied when …
977 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.168 (Matthew Henry)
… him. Calvin observes that these chief priests, when they had driven Christ out of the temple, valued themselves on the possession they kept of it: “But,” says he …
978 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1010.70 (Matthew Henry)
… stand. Calvin observes this as a great instance of Christ’s humiliation, that he should speak thus like one at a loss. Quo se magis exinanivit gloriae Dominus …
979 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1011.46 (Matthew Henry)
… do. Calvin saith that the pope, in the annual observance of this ceremony on Thursday in the passion week, is rather Christ’s ape than his follower, for the duty …
980 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1013.23 (Matthew Henry)
… love .—Calvin.