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12881 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 44.2 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort. (2.) He engages to take all possible care of him, and to do his utmost for his safety, Genesis 43:8, 43:9. Judah’s conscience had lately smitten him for …
12882 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 45.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of their aged father, Genesis 44:18-44:34
12883 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 45.9 (Matthew Henry)
… parents’ comfort, and to be afraid of every thing that may be an occasion of grief to them. Thus the love that descended first must again ascend, and something …
12884 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 46.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort he designed them, by making himself known to them, the story of which we have in this chapter. It was to Joseph’s brethren as clear shining after …
12885 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 46.5 (Matthew Henry)
… would comfort his disciples he said, It is I, be not afraid. This word, at first, startled Joseph’s brethren; they started back through fear, or at least stood still …
12886 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 46.11 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts as those that must quickly die, and leave them.
12887 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 47.7 (Matthew Henry)
… him comfort in the removal. (1.) That he should multiply in Egypt: “ I will there, where thou fearest that thy family will sink and be lost, make it a great nation. That …
12888 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 47.12 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts must always be imperfect. Jacob wished to die immediately, and lived seventeen years longer, which, as our lives go now, is a considerable part …
12889 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 48.18 (Matthew Henry)
… . The comfort Jacob lived in ( Genesis 47:27, 47:28 ); while the Egyptians were impoverished in their own land, Jacob was replenished in a strange land. He lived seventeen …
12890 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 49.2 (Matthew Henry)
… giving comfort and counsel to others and receiving instruction ourselves. Joseph took his two sons with him, that they might receive their dying grandfather’s …
12891 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 49.7 (Matthew Henry)
… their comforts. Joseph says ( Genesis 48:9 ), They are my sons whom God has given me, and, to magnify the favour, he adds, “ In this place of my banishment, slavery, and imprisonment …
12892 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 49.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comforts, and more of the good things of this life. (2.) He often gives most to those that are least likely. He chooses the weak things of the world; raises the …
12893 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 49.11 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort in reference to the death of our friends: They die; but God shall be with us, and his gracious presence is sufficient to make up the loss: they leave …
12894 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 50.2 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comforts, that are principally intended for others. His calling upon them once and again to gather together intimated both a precept to them to unite …
12895 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 50.5 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort and support on his death-bed. (3.) That after the coming of the sceptre into the tribe of Judah it should continue in that tribe, at least a government …
12896 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 50.10 (Matthew Henry)
… he comforts himself with this, that he had waited for the salvation. Note, It is the character of a living saint that he waits for the salvation of the Lord. Christ …
12897 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 50.15 (Matthew Henry)
… , great comforts to themselves and others, who have been looked upon as dry and withered. More is recorded in the history concerning Joseph than concerning …
12898 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 50.16 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort through all his trials; he bore all his burdens with an invincible resolution, and did not sink under them, nor do any thing unbecoming him. (3.) The …
12899 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 50.17 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortably nursed. In the word of God, by which we are born again, and nourished up ( 1 Peter 1:23, 2:2 ), there are to the new man blessings both of the womb and the …
12900 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 51.6 (Matthew Henry)
… : He comforted them, and, to banish all their fears, he spoke kindly to them. Note, Broken spirits must be bound up and encouraged. Those we love and forgive we must …