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12721 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1156.4 (Matthew Henry)
… no comfort in sufferings, when we bring them upon ourselves by our own sin and folly. A time of universal calamity was at hand, as foretold by our Saviour, Matthew …
12722 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1157.3 (Matthew Henry)
… greater comfort to the soul than the gratification of pride and ambition. But it is to be in due time; not in thy fancied time, but God’s own wisely appointed …
12723 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1161.2 (Matthew Henry)
… their comforts and everlasting advantages. They had free access to God the Father. They had a happy experience of the truth in their souls, and showed its excellence …
12724 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1163.5 (Matthew Henry)
… without comfort, and full of darkness and terror. By what can it be known that a man has a true sense of the love of Christ for perishing sinners, or that the love …
12725 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1164.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the happy change wrought in them, while they give him the glory. The love of God in Christ, in the hearts of Christians from the Spirit of adoption …
12726 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1165.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comforting his soul. He has a new disposition, and new delights, and is not the man that he formerly was. Yet he finds still a conflict with himself, with sin …
12727 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1166.5 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforting others; but to see each other is more so. The communion of saints should be maintained by all methods; and should tend to mutual joy. In communion …
12728 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1169.4 (Matthew Henry)
… apostle’s comfort that he did not suffer as an evil-doer, but for the testimony of Jesus, for bearing witness to Christ as the Immanuel, the Saviour; and the Spirit …
12729 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1169.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort; Fear not. Words of instruction; telling who thus appeared. And his Divine nature; the First and the Last. His former sufferings; I was dead: the very …
12730 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1170.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts of the Spirit of Christ, come down from heaven into the soul, for its support. This is hidden from the rest of the world. The new name is the name of …
12731 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1171.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts. In the conclusion is a promise to the overcoming believer. Christ himself had temptations and conflicts; he overcame them all, and was more than …
12732 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1174.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforter of his afflicted servants, and precious is their blood in his sight. As the measure of the sin of persecutors is filling up, so is the number of …
12733 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1176.3 (Matthew Henry)
… all comforts bitter, and even life itself burdensome. But God, in this world, sets bounds to the most terrible judgments. Corruption of doctrine and worship …
12734 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1186.3 (Matthew Henry)
… outward comforts. The magnificence and riches of the ungodly will avail them nothing, but will render the vengeance harder to be borne. The spiritual merchandise …
12735 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1189.2 (Matthew Henry)
… earthly comforts are like the scanty supplies of a cistern; when idolized, they become broken cisterns, and yield only vexation. But the joys which Christ …
12736 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1190.2 (Matthew Henry)
… earthly comfort are muddy; but these are clear, and refreshing. They give life, and preserve life, to those who drink of them, and thus they will flow for evermore …
12737 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 2.4 (Matthew Henry)
I. In its epitome, Genesis 1:1; where we find, to our comfort, the first article of our creed, that God the Father Almighty is the Maker of heaven and earth, and as such we believe in him.
12738 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 2.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of all that serve him and the confusion of all that hate him! It is good having him our friend, and bad having him our enemy. 4. The naming of it: He called …
12739 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 2.17 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfort that they are only waters under the heaven (there are none in heaven), and that they are all in the place that God has appointed them and within …
12740 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 2.27 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of. Man was made the same day that the beasts were, because his body was made of the same earth with theirs; and, while he is in the body, he inhabits the …