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14501 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.6 (Matthew Henry)
… this comfort. If God’s righteousness and salvation are near to them, then let them not fear the reproach of men, of mortal miserable men, nor be afraid of their …
14502 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.10 (Matthew Henry)
… comforts those that are cast down; he delights in being so. Those whom God comforts are comforted indeed; nay, his undertaking to comfort them is comfort enough …
14503 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort to preserve us from. He comforts the timorous by chiding them, and that is no improper way of comforting either others or ourselves: Why art thou …
14504 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.14 (Matthew Henry)
… . He comforts those that were in bonds, Isaiah 51:14, 51:15. See here, (1.) What they do for themselves: The captives exile hastens that he may be loosed and may return …
14505 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.15 (Matthew Henry)
… . He comforts all his people who depended upon what the prophets said to them in the name of the Lord, and built their hopes upon it. When the deliverances which …
14506 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of his people, here calls upon them to awake, as afterwards, Isaiah 52:1. It is a call to awake not so much out of the sleep of sin (though that also is necessary …
14507 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.19 (Matthew Henry)
… I comfort thee?” Those that will not be counselled cannot be helped. (2.) That those who should have been her comforters were their own tormentors ( Isaiah 51:20 …
14508 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.20 (Matthew Henry)
… thy comfort,” 1. “That the Lord Jehovah is thy Lord and thy God, for all this.” It is expressed emphatically ( Isaiah 51:22 ): “ Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord, and thy God —the …
14509 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 732.5 (Matthew Henry)
… some comfort to be able to say that as to them it is without cause, that we have not given them any provocation, Psalms 7:3-7:5
14510 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 732.7 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfort and shall find it their strong tower. They shall know that God’s providence governs the world, and all the affairs of it, that it is he who speaks …
14511 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 732.9 (Matthew Henry)
… surprisingly comforted ( Isaiah 52:9 ): Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; that is, all parts of Jerusalem, for it was all in ruins …
14512 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 733.9 (Matthew Henry)
… no comforter, because on the side of the oppressors there is power, Ecclesiastes 4:1. Oppression is a sore affliction; it has made many a wise man mad ( Ecclesiastes …
14513 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 733.19 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort; for, being delivered for our offences, he was raised again for our justification. That discharge of the bail amounted to a release of the debt. [2 …
14514 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 733.35 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts to bestow upon all his faithful soldiers. (2.) Christ comes at his glory by conquest. He has set upon the strong man armed, dispossessed him, and divided …
14515 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 734.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and honour of the church ( Isaiah 54:4 ): “ Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed, as formerly, of the straitness of thy borders, and the fewness of thy children …
14516 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 734.10 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable, Isaiah 54:6-54:8. Observe, 1. How sorrowful the church’s condition had been. She had been as a woman forsaken, whose husband was dead, or had fallen …
14517 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 734.15 (Matthew Henry)
… by any compassionate friend that will sympathize with thee, or suggest to thee any encouraging considerations ( Ecclesiastes 4:1 ), not comforted by …
14518 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 734.16 (Matthew Henry)
… other comforter. Let the people of God, when they are afflicted and tossed, think they hear God speaking comfortably to them by these words, taking notice of …
14519 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 735.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the people of God that lived then, especially of the captives in Babylon, and others of the dispersed of Israel; but unto us was this gospel preached …
14520 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 735.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable use of it, but enjoy it, and eat the labour of our hands: Buy, and eat .