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14241 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 665.18 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of human life, are valuable things ( Ecclesiastes 5:9 ): The profit of the earth is for all. Man’s body, being made of the earth, thence has its maintenance …
14242 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 665.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of this life as food is. Now, (1.) Those commonly sleep best that work hard and have but what they work for: The sleep of the labouring man is sweet, not …
14243 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 665.25 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort we get by that labour we may carry away in our hearts, and shall be the better for it to eternity; that is meat that endures. But if we labour only for …
14244 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 665.27 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfortable passage through this world. We must not starve ourselves through covetousness, because we cannot afford ourselves food convenient, nor …
14245 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 666.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it; he has no power to eat of it, lets strangers devour it, is never filled with good, and at last has no burial, Ecclesiastes 6:2, 6:3. 3. He condemns it …
14246 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 666.2 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable use of the gifts of God’s providence; now here he shows the evil of the contrary, having and not using, gathering to lay up for I know not what contingent …
14247 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 666.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of them and serve God with them. The gifts of common providence are bestowed on many to whom are denied the gifts of a special grace, without which …
14248 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 666.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of what he has himself. He has meat before him; he has wherewith to maintain himself and his family comfortably, but he has not power to eat thereof …
14249 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 666.12 (Matthew Henry)
… us comfortably and a great deal can do no more.
14250 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 666.15 (Matthew Henry)
… as comfortably through this world as he that is loaded with an overgrown estate. Consider what the poor has less than the rich, if he but knows to walk before …
14251 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 666.20 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of life be vanity, life itself can have no great reality in it to constitute a happiness for us. (4.) That our expectations from this world are as uncertain …
14252 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 667.17 (Matthew Henry)
… , but comfortable. (2.) It is folly to cry up the goodness of former times, so as to derogate from the mercy of God to us in our own times; as if former ages had not the …
14253 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 667.22 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort and support under our afflictions.
14254 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 667.37 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable, but this sin can be no other than shame and pain, Proverbs 5:9, 5:11. [2.] He found the temptation to the sin very dangerous, and that it was extremely …
14255 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 667.38 (Matthew Henry)
… more comfort we have in the sense of the pardon; he desired it also as a preacher, that he might the more particularly give warning to others. Note, A sound conviction …
14256 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 668.5 (Matthew Henry)
… own comfort: Whoso keeps the commandment, and lives a quiet and peaceable life, shall feel no evil thing, to which that of the apostle answers ( Romans 13:3 ), Wilt …
14257 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 669.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of life and mind the business of life, while it lasts, Ecclesiastes 9:7-9:10. III. That God’s providence often crosses the fairest and most hopeful …
14258 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 669.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of comforts and crosses, and the disposal of events. This has perplexed the minds of many wise and contemplative men. Solomon discourses of it in Ecclesiastes …
14259 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 669.12 (Matthew Henry)
… that comfort of this world and does that service to it which the greatest prince, when he is dead, is utterly incapable of. 2. While there is life there is an opportunity …
14260 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 669.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of life while we live, and cheerfully take our share of the enjoyments of it. Solomon, having been himself ensnared by the abuse of sensitive delights …