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14861 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 854.24 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of their brethren in captivity there. Note, It is the wisdom of princes to prefer and employ men of stedfastness in religion; for those are most …
14862 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 855.21 (Matthew Henry)
… expect comfortably to enjoy our right in, and government of, both ourselves and others, when we dutifully acknowledge God’s title to, and dominion over, us …
14863 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 855.22 (Matthew Henry)
… , to comfort him; and it is not inconsistent with the dream and the interpretation of it, for Daniel knew not but it might be conditional, like the prediction …
14864 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 857.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort he has in God. When the light of nature teaches us that the providence of God has the ordering and disposing of all our affairs does not the law of …
14865 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 857.14 (Matthew Henry)
… sin, comforts their souls with his peace, and receives their souls to himself, he does in effect stop the lions’ mouths, that they cannot hurt them. See how ready …
14866 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 858.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and support of the people of God in reference to the persecutions they were likely to sustain both from the one and from the other, and from all …
14867 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 858.9 (Matthew Henry)
… here comforted, that not only the dominion of the church’s enemies shall be taken away ( Daniel 7:12 ), but the church’s head and best friend shall have the dominion …
14868 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 858.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of the vision over against the terrors of it.
14869 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 858.14 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort the people of God in their distresses. But yet it has a further reference, and foretels the like persecuting power and rage in Rome heathen, and no …
14870 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 858.15 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts of which now, under the heavens, shall be the earnest and first-fruits of the kingdom of glory in the heavens. When the empire became Christian …
14871 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 859.10 (Matthew Henry)
… daily comforts, and would not for all the world part with them. (6.) He cast down the place of his sanctuary. He did not burn and demolish the temple, but he cast it …
14872 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 859.12 (Matthew Henry)
… . Christ comforted himself in his sufferings with this, The things concerning me have an end ( Luke 22:37 ), and so may the church in hers. But it is desirable to know …
14873 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 859.18 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to those who shall live to see these calamitous times that there shall be an end of them; the indignation shall cease ( Isaiah 10:25 ); it shall be overpast …
14874 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of it. 2. What occasioned his address to God by prayer ( Daniel 9:2 ): He understood by books that seventy years was the time fixed for the continuance …
14875 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.8 (Matthew Henry)
… some comfort to them (and not a little) that God has been always ready to pardon sin ( Daniel 9:9 ): To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; this refers …
14876 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.9 (Matthew Henry)
… their comforts in this world buried in the ruins of the sanctuary.
14877 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.25 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable sense, enjoy their sabbaths seven times seventy years, and in them seventy sabbatical years, which makes ten jubilees. Such proportions are …
14878 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.29 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to the pious Jews, that a commandment shall go forth to restore and to build Jerusalem, Daniel 9:25. And the commandment shall not be in vain; for though …
14879 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 861.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable words. Let us see how Daniel is by degrees brought to himself, and gather up the several passages that are to the same purport.
14880 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 861.10 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort commonly come by degrees to those that have been long cast down and disquieted; they are first helped up a little, and then more. After two days he …