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14461 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 723.24 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, but we are careless of his honour. Let this engage us to keep close to our duty, that it is easy and reasonable, and no disparagement to us, nor too hard …
14462 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 724.4 (Matthew Henry)
… these comfortable words; therefore fear not, O Jacob ! fear not thy troubles, for by the pardon of sin the property of them too is altered. Now the relations wherein …
14463 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 724.7 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, 1. That the God we trust in is a God of incontestable sovereignty and irresistible power. He is the Lord, Jehovah, self-existent and self-sufficient …
14464 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 724.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it, and is so far from having any regret in his mind for it that he saith, Aha! I am warm; I have seen the fire; and certainly that part of the tree which …
14465 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 724.29 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable word, for more is implied in it than is expressed ( Isaiah 44:21 ): “ O Israel! thou shalt not be forgotten of me, though for the present thou seemest …
14466 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 724.30 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts that flow into the soul when sin is pardoned are like the clear shining after clouds and rain .
14467 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.1 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfort secured, with an eye to the Mediator, who is made of God to us both righteousness and sanctification, Isaiah 45:16-45:25. And here, as in many other …
14468 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.10 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts, and all our crosses, in this world.
14469 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of those that earnestly longed, and yet quietly waited, for the redemption of Israel ( Isaiah 45:8 ): Drop down, you heavens, from above. Some take this …
14470 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.17 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfort. The heavens and earth shall contribute, if he please, to the deliverance of the church ( Isaiah 45:8 ), for he created both, and therefore has both …
14471 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.22 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, though God hide himself, we are sure he is the God of Israel, the Saviour. See Job 35:14 .
14472 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.27 (Matthew Henry)
… such comfort and satisfaction of soul as were equivalent. What we say of winter is true of prayer, It never rots in the skies. God not only gives a gracious answer …
14473 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.32 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and encouragement of all God’s faithful worshippers, whoever they are, Isaiah 45:22. Those that worship idols pray to gods that cannot save; but …
14474 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 726.6 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort his faithful servants, even in their old age: “ Even to your old age, when you grow unfit for business, when you are compassed with infirmities, and …
14475 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 726.12 (Matthew Henry)
… their comforts in God’s counsels, that his counsel shall undoubtedly stand; and, if we are brought to this, that whatever pleases God pleases us, nothing can …
14476 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 727.5 (Matthew Henry)
… only comfort to us, but terror to our adversaries.” 1. “He is the Lord of hosts, that has all the creatures at his command, and therefore has all power both in heaven …
14477 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 727.14 (Matthew Henry)
… were comforts to her. But on Babylon they come in perfection; she has no comfort remaining. (2.) It will be a sudden and surprising ruin. The evil shall come in one …
14478 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 727.17 (Matthew Henry)
… . Miserable comforters are they all. Or, [2.] In a way of commerce. As their astrologers, with whom they had laboured, failed them, so did their merchants; they took …
14479 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 728.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort to God’s people that, whatever becomes of them, God will secure his own honour; and, as far as is necessary to that, God will work deliverance for them …
14480 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 728.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it. They are God’s called, called according to his purpose, called by him out of Egypt ( Hosea 11:1 ) and now out of Babylon, a people whom with a distinguishing …