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97981 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.15 (Matthew Henry)
… , Hebrews 7:21. Here God has upon oath declared the immutability, excellency, efficacy, and eternity, of the priesthood of Christ.
97982 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.17 (Matthew Henry)
… , Hebrews 7:25. So that here is a manifest alteration much for the better.
97983 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1141.18 (Matthew Henry)
… ., Hebrews 7:26-7:28. Here observe, (1.) Our case, as sinners, needed a high priest to make satisfaction and intercession for us. (2.) No priest could be suitable or sufficient …
97984 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1142.5 (Matthew Henry)
… 8:7, 8:8 ); it was a dispensation of darkness and dread, tending to bondage, and only a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ; it was perfect in its kind, and fitted to answer …
97985 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1142.7 (Matthew Henry)
1. That it is a better covenant ( Hebrews 8:6 ), a more clear and comfortable dispensation and discovery of the grace of God to sinners, bringing in holy light and …
97986 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1143.7 (Matthew Henry)
… 9:7. This part was an emblem of heaven, and Christ’s ascension thither. Here observe, (1.) None but the high priest must go into the holiest; so none but Christ could …
97987 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1144.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 10:7-10:18. III. He shows to believers the honours and dignities of their state, and calls them to suitable duties, Hebrews 10:19-10:39 .
97988 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1144.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , 40:7 ), and is recited here as now come. Thus industriously does the apostle lay low the Mosaical dispensation.
97989 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1144.9 (Matthew Henry)
… 10:7. God had not only decreed, but declared by Moses and the prophets, that Christ should come and be the great high priest of the church, and should offer up a …
97990 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1144.11 (Matthew Henry)
… 10:7-10:9. When no less sacrifice would be a proper satisfaction to the justice of God than that of Christ himself, then Christ voluntarily came into it: “ Lo, I come …
97991 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1144.34 (Matthew Henry)
7. He presses them to perseverance, by telling them that this is their distinguishing character and will be their happiness; whereas apostasy is the reproach …
97992 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.7 (Matthew Henry)
1. What Abel did by faith: He offered up a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, a more full and perfect sacrifice, pleiona thysian. Hence learn, (1.) That, after the …
97993 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.12 (Matthew Henry)
III. The faith of Noah, Hebrews 11:7. Observe,
97994 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.17 (Matthew Henry)
… Acts 7:2, 7:3, The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia—And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come …
97995 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.33 (Matthew Henry)
(7.) They died in the faith of those promises; not only lived by the faith of them, but died in the full persuasion that all the promises would be fulfilled to them …
97996 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.51 (Matthew Henry)
… Acts 7:20; asteios to Theo — venustus Deo — fair to God. There appeared in him something uncommon; the beauty of the Lord sat upon him, as a presage that he was born …
97997 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.60 (Matthew Henry)
… atonement. (7.) All our spiritual privileges on earth should quicken us to set out early, and get forward, in our way to heaven. (8.) Those who have been marked out must …
97998 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.76 (Matthew Henry)
7. To Samuel he adds, and of the prophets, who were extraordinary ministers of the Old-Testament church, employed of God sometimes to denounce judgment, sometimes …
97999 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.84 (Matthew Henry)
7. Out of weakness they were made strong. From national weakness, into which the Jews often fell by their unbelief; upon the revival of their faith, all their …
98000 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1145.86 (Matthew Henry)
… , Luke 7:12 (5.) This should confirm our faith in the general resurrection.