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15601 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.46 (Matthew Henry)
… is comforting them, he bids them keep his commandments; for we must not expect comfort but in the way of duty. The same word ( parakaleo ) signifies both to exhort …
15602 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.48 (Matthew Henry)
… another comforter. This is the great New-Testament promise ( Acts 1:4 ), as that of the Messiah was of the Old Testament; a promise adapted to the present distress …
15603 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.49 (Matthew Henry)
… .] Another comforter. Christ was expected as the consolation of Israel. One of the names of the Messiah among the Jews was Menahem—the Comforter. The Targum calls …
15604 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.50 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforter, pursuant to the same design. The Son is said to send the Comforter ( John 15:26 ), but the Father is the prime agent.
15605 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.52 (Matthew Henry)
… a comforter, nor lament his departure, as you are now lamenting mine.” Note, It should support us under the loss of those comforts which were designed us for a …
15606 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.53 (Matthew Henry)
… . This comforter is the Spirit of truth, whom you know, John 14:16, 14:17. They might think it impossible to have a comforter equivalent to him who is the Son of God …
15607 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.54 (Matthew Henry)
(1.) The comforter promised is the Spirit, one who should do his work in a spiritual way and manner, inwardly and invisibly, by working on men’s spirits.
15608 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.56 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable assurance of his continuance: He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you, for the blessed Spirit doth not use to shift his lodging. Those that know …
15609 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.58 (Matthew Henry)
… this comfort, I will come to you .” His departure from them was that which grieved them; but it was not so bad as they apprehended, for it was neither total nor final …
15610 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.62 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it. An interest in Christ and the knowledge of it are sometimes separated.
15611 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.65 (Matthew Henry)
… their comforts in himself—when he clears up the evidences of their interest in him, and gives them tokens of his love, experience of his tenderness, and earnests …
15612 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.68 (Matthew Henry)
(2.) Christ, in answer hereto, explains and confirms what he had said, John 14:23, 14:24. He overlooks what infirmity there was in what Judas spoke, and goes on with his comforts.
15613 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.70 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts upon the souls of those that love Christ in sincerity. 3. Not only, “I will give him a transient view of me, or make him a short and running visit,” but …
15614 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.71 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort is laid upon the promise of Christ. But forasmuch as, in dependence upon that promise, we must deny ourselves, and take up our cross, and quit all, it …
15615 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.72 (Matthew Henry)
Two things Christ here comforts his disciples with:—
15616 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.75 (Matthew Henry)
… other comforter ( John 14:16 ), and here he returns to speak of it again; for as the promise of the Messiah had been, so the promise of the Spirit now was, the consolation …
15617 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.83 (Matthew Henry)
… . He comforted himself,
15618 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.84 (Matthew Henry)
… should comfort us in our departure at death; we go away to come again; the leave we take of our friends at that parting is only a good night, not a final farewell …
15619 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.85 (Matthew Henry)
… most comfortable. 2. The reason of this is, because the Father is greater than he, which, if it be a proper proof of that for which it is alleged (as no doubt it is), must …
15620 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.86 (Matthew Henry)
… the Comforter, that, when it is come to pass, you might believe .” See this reason, John 13:19, 16:4. Christ told his disciples of his death, though he knew it would both …