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15421 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 985.25 (Matthew Henry)
… take comfort from, but the word which he has spoken ( Luke 11:9, 11:10 ): “ Ask, and it shall be given you; either the thing itself you shall ask or that which is equivalent …
15422 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 985.53 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort. It was darkness itself, but now light in the Lord, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light, Luke 11:36. Note, The gospel will come …
15423 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 985.59 (Matthew Henry)
… them comfortably.” Here is a plain allusion to the law of Moses, by which it was provided that certain portions of the increase of their land should be given …
15424 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 986.11 (Matthew Henry)
… everlasting comfort and honour. Jesus Christ will confess, not only that he suffered for them, and that they are to have the benefit of his sufferings, but that …
15425 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 986.19 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortably, who have but a little of the wealth of it (a dinner of herbs with holy love is better than a feast of fat things ); and, on the other hand, many live …
15426 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 986.25 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort in his abundance till he had compassed his projects concerning it. When he has built bigger barns, and filled them (which will be a work of time), then …
15427 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 986.35 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comforts, and spiritual gifts. Many who have abundance of this world are wholly destitute of that which will enrich their souls, which will make them rich …
15428 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 986.46 (Matthew Henry)
… . This comfortable word we had not in Matthew. Note, [1.] Christ’s flock in this world is a little flock; his sheep are but few and feeble. The church is a vineyard, a …
15429 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 986.59 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort to those to whom they respectively belong. Suum cuique — to every one his own. This is rightly to divide the word of truth, 2 Timothy 2:15. (3.) To give it …
15430 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 987.7 (Matthew Henry)
… no comforter, no, not the priests and Levites that attended the altar, are the greatest sinners. Let us, in our censures of others, do as we would be done by; for as …
15431 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 987.34 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of Christians.
15432 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 987.48 (Matthew Henry)
… reflected comfort upon them. Secondly, That New-Testament sinners will be thrust out of the kingdom of God. It intimates that they will be thrusting in, and …
15433 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 987.51 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to us, in reference to the power and malice of our enemies, that they can have no power to take us off as long as God has any work for us to do. The witnesses …
15434 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 988.27 (Matthew Henry)
… . Christ comforts himself with this, that, though Israel be not gathered, yet he shall be glorious, as a light to the Gentiles, Isaiah 49:5, 49:6. God will have a church …
15435 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 988.32 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts, and dead to them, so as cheerfully to part with them rather than quit their interest in Christ, Luke 14:26. A man cannot be Christ’s disciple …
15436 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 989.32 (Matthew Henry)
… miserable comforters, what physicians of no value, all but Christ are, for a soul that groans under the guilt and power of sin, and no man gives unto us what we …
15437 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 989.47 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable sense of their pardon, must have in their hearts a sincere contrition for it, and with their mouths must make a penitent confession of it, even …
15438 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 989.48 (Matthew Henry)
… God comforted him, Jeremiah 31:18-31:20. It is strange that here is not one word of rebuke: “Why did you not stay with your harlots and your swine? You could never …
15439 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 989.50 (Matthew Henry)
… its comforts, to those who have been labouring in vain for satisfaction in the creature! Now he found his own words made good, In my father’s house there is bread …
15440 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 989.54 (Matthew Henry)
[1.] In men’s families. Those who have always been a comfort to their parents think they should have the monopoly of their parents’ favours, and are apt to be too sharp upon those who have transgressed, and to grudge their parents’ kindness to them.