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15501 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1002.85 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of faithful ministers, that their work has a tendency to the eternal salvation of precious souls. [2.] They have joy: That he that sows and they that …
15502 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1002.92 (Matthew Henry)
… is comfortable to see the number of believers; and sometimes the zeal and forwardness of some may be a means to provoke many, and to stir them up to a holy emulation …
15503 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1002.101 (Matthew Henry)
… . The Comforter shall first convince. Herod longed to see some miracle ( Luke 23:8 ), and this courtier was of the same mind, and the generality of the people too. Now …
15504 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1002.105 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfort, and spiritual healing, which he speaks in heaven, are, if he pleases, at the same time effected and wrought in the souls of believers; and, when these …
15505 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.8 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts. The evangelist specifies three sorts of diseased people that lay here, blind, halt, and withered or sinew—shrunk, either in one particular part …
15506 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.16 (Matthew Henry)
2. He knew and considered how long he had lain in this condition. Those that have been long in affliction may comfort themselves with this, that God keeps account how long, and knows our frame.
15507 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.28 (Matthew Henry)
… , quickens, comforts us, and we wist not who he is; nor are aware how much we receive daily by his mediation. This man, being unacquainted with Christ, could not actually …
15508 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.43 (Matthew Henry)
… he comforted himself with this, that his Father loved him.
15509 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.55 (Matthew Henry)
… with comforts in perfection. To live is to be happy, and they shall be advanced above the fear of death; that is life indeed in which mortality is for ever swallowed …
15510 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.59 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of access to him by a Mediator. Having made us, he may do what he pleases with us, as the potter with the clay; yet he does not take advantage of this, but …
15511 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.61 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of all believers, who may with the greatest assurance venture their all in such hands.
15512 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.90 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfort and glory : life is the perfection of our being, and inclusive of all happiness; and Christ is our life. Secondly, Those that would have this life must …
15513 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.18 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts, that they will furnish us with matter, and give us occasion, for that excellent duty of thanksgiving. [2.] Though our provision be coarse and …
15514 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.19 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts come to us originally from the hand of Christ; whoever brings them, it is he that sends them, he distributes to those who distribute to us. [2.] In distributing …
15515 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.30 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort expect a storm. (1.) It was now dark; this made the storm the more dangerous and uncomfortable. Sometimes the people of God are in trouble, and cannot …
15516 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.31 (Matthew Henry)
… not comforted. When they are banished (as John) into remote places, or shut up (as Paul and Silas) in close places, he will find access to them, and will be nigh them …
15517 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.32 (Matthew Henry)
… may comfort ourselves with this, that we shall be at shore shortly, and are nearer to it than we think we are. Many a doubting soul is fetched to heaven by a pleasing …
15518 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.37 (Matthew Henry)
… find comfort in him, must be willing to take pains, and, as here, to compass sea and land to seek and serve him who came from heaven to earth to seek and save us.
15519 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.46 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comforts of that kingdom, and has power to give eternal life, with all the means of it and preparatives for it. We are told to labour for it, as if it were to be …
15520 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.58 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforting to a believer as ever it was, and his mediation still of as much value and efficacy as ever. Secondly, He gives life unto the world ( John 6:33 ), spiritual …