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14441 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 720.1 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort in their trouble; and we may well imagine of what great use to them the glorious, gracious, light of this prophecy was, in that cloudy and dark day …
14442 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 720.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of this scripture, may have hope.
14443 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 720.3 (Matthew Henry)
… as comforters, and as helpers of the joy of Christians, are here put in mind of their business. Here we have,
14444 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 720.4 (Matthew Henry)
… ) to comfort the people of God; and the charge is doubled, Comfort you, comfort you —not because the prophets are unwilling to do it (no, it is the most pleasant part …
14445 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 720.5 (Matthew Henry)
II. Comfortable words directed to Jerusalem in particular: “ Speak to the heart of Jerusalem ( Isaiah 40:2 ); speak that which will revive her heart, and be a cordial …
14446 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 720.8 (Matthew Henry)
… from comfort in Christ by their dejections and despondencies are the valleys that must be exalted. Those that are hindered from comfort in Christ by a proud …
14447 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 720.12 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts in this word are dying comforts, and therefore cannot be the felicity of our immortal souls. We must look further for a salvation, look further …
14448 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 720.13 (Matthew Henry)
It was promised ( Isaiah 40:5 ) that the glory of the Lord shall be revealed; that is it with the hopes of which God’s people must be comforted. Now here we are told,
14449 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 720.14 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of it. “Behold him, take notice of his hand in it, and look above second causes; behold, the God you have long looked for has come at last ( Isaiah 25:9 ): This …
14450 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 721.1 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort. And however this might be primarily intended for the conviction of Babylonians, and the comfort of Israelites, or for the conviction of those …
14451 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 721.11 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of this scripture may have hope. And it is addressed to Israel as a single person, that it might the more easily and readily be accommodated and …
14452 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 721.15 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort in God, and God shall have abundance of honour from them: Thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, Isaiah 41:16. When we are freed from that which hindered our …
14453 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 721.16 (Matthew Henry)
… wilderness, comfortable to them. But doubtless this promise has more than such a private interpretation. Their return out of Babylon was typical of our redemption …
14454 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 722.1 (Matthew Henry)
… greater comfort and support to the believing pious Jews, in their captivity, than the hope of that. And (as Mr. Gataker well observes) in this and similar prophecies …
14455 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 722.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort to the children of men. He was given for a covenant of the people, for a mediator, or guarantee, of the covenant of grace, which is all summed up in him …
14456 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 722.18 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort and encouragement to the believing Jews who waited for the consolation of Israel, here turns to those among them who were unbelieving, for their …
14457 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 722.23 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforted. The scripture was fulfilled in the casting off of the Jews as well as in the calling in of the Gentiles, and therein the Lord will be well pleased …
14458 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 723.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort to all the spiritual seed of upright Jacob and praying Israel; for to us is this gospel preached as well as unto those that were captives in Babylon …
14459 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 723.9 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforts, the tenderness of his providence, and the truth of his promise. They will be forward to witness for him that he is gracious and that no word of his …
14460 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 723.19 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortably to their own land ( Isaiah 43:19, 43:20 ): I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert; for, it seems, the way from Babylon to Canaan, as …