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14481 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 728.16 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort under their affliction. The preface to this message is both awful and encouraging ( Isaiah 48:17 ): Thus saith Jehovah, the eternal God, thy Redeemer …
14482 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.6 (Matthew Henry)
… . His comfort is, and it may be the comfort of all faithful ministers, when they see little success of their labours, (1.) That, however it be, it is a righteous cause …
14483 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.15 (Matthew Henry)
… own comfort.” When he discharged the lepers from their confinement, he said, Go show yourselves to the priest. When we see the light, let our light shine.
14484 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable passage of those whom he sets at liberty to the place of their rest and happy settlement, Isaiah 49:9-49:11. These verses refer to the provision …
14485 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.19 (Matthew Henry)
… has comforted his people that were in sorrow and he will have mercy upon the afflicted because of his compassion, upon his afflicted because of his covenant …
14486 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.20 (Matthew Henry)
II. Nothing can furnish us with more convincing arguments to prove the most tender and affectionate concern God has for his church, and her interests and comforts.
14487 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.23 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort: Thy children shall make haste. Converts to the faith of Christ are the children of the church; they shall join themselves to her with great readiness …
14488 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.24 (Matthew Henry)
… people’s comfort; he would not have them droop, and be discouraged, and give way to any uneasy thoughts. “You think that I have forgotten you. Can a woman forget …
14489 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.25 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of these promises.
14490 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.1 (Matthew Henry)
… curse, comfort to desponding saints and terror to presuming sinners, Isaiah 50:10, 50:11. Now all this seems to have a double reference, 1. To the unbelieving Jews …
14491 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.7 (Matthew Henry)
… many comfortable words which Christ has spoken to the weary. 2. The ear of the learned, to receive instruction. Prophets have as much need of this as of the tongue …
14492 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.8 (Matthew Henry)
… speak comfort to the weary should meet with no difficulty in his work, but universal acceptance. It is however quite otherwise; he has both hard work to do and …
14493 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.10 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforted, though for a while he walk in darkness and have no light), but he that believes not shall be damned; though for a while he walk in the light of his own …
14494 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of this life (those that fear God, when they have ever so great an abundance of them, do not walk in them as their light) as of their spiritual comforts …
14495 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.12 (Matthew Henry)
… . Creature-comforts are as sparks, short-lived and soon gone; yet the children of this world, while they last, warm themselves by them, and walk with pride and pleasu …
14496 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.1 (Matthew Henry)
… comforts thus generally expressed ought not to be so confined. Whenever the church of God is in distress her friends and well—wishers may comfort themselves …
14497 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.2 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort Zion, not only by speaking comfortably to her, but by acting graciously for her. God has comforts in store even for the waste places of his church …
14498 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.3 (Matthew Henry)
Both these proclamations, as I may call them, end alike with an assurance of the perpetuity of God’s righteousness and his salvation; and therefore we put them together, both being designed for the comfort of God’s people. Observe,
14499 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.4 (Matthew Henry)
… this comfort belongs: “ My people, and my nation, that I have set apart for myself, that own me and are owned by me.” Those are God’s people and his nation who are subject …
14500 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of it, welcome. It was a comfort to God’s people, to his nation, that multitudes should be added to them, and the increase of their number should be …