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15761 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1027.4 (Matthew Henry)
… dying comforts should have overcome them, and melted them into a better opinion of Christians and Christianity; but it seems they did not: the persecution …
15762 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1027.25 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfort and usefulness. 2. To carry on the good work that was begun among the people, and, with those heavenly graces that had enriched them, to confer upon …
15763 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.30 (Matthew Henry)
… will comfort.
15764 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.39 (Matthew Henry)
… spiritual comforts and recompensed with eternal glories, that it is no discouragement to him to be told how great things he must suffer for Christ’s name’s …
15765 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.41 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort thee.” Una eademque manus vulnus opemque tulit—The hand that wounded heals. “His light struck thee blind, but he hath sent me to thee that thou mightest …
15766 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.53 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable gleam of liberty and peace ( Acts 9:31 ): Then had the churches rest. Then, when Saul was converted, so some; when that persecutor was taken off, those …
15767 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.55 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the Holy Ghost, and lived upon that, not only in days of trouble and affliction, but in days of rest and prosperity. The comforts of the earth, when …
15768 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.56 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforts, they were multiplied. Thus those that will not be won by the word may be won by the conversation of professors.
15769 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.64 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of Job, while he lived, that the loins of the poor blessed him, because they were warmed with the fleece of his sheep, Job 31:20. And here it was the credit …
15770 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.66 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort, particularly of the widows, who laid her death much to heart ( Acts 9:41 ); to them he presented her, as Elijah ( 1 Kings 17:23 ), and Elisha ( 2 Kings 4:36 ), and …
15771 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.15 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort in the creatures, and our obligations to serve God in the use of them, to see them thus let down to us out of heaven! 4. He was ordered by a voice from heaven …
15772 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.25 (Matthew Henry)
… hear comfortably from God must be much in speaking to him. [2.] He describes the messenger that brought him this message from heaven: There stood a man before …
15773 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.28 (Matthew Henry)
… what comfort could either he preach or they hear? He therefore lays down this as an undoubted principle, that God is no respecter of persons; doth not know favour …
15774 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1030.8 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts by any other law than that of sobriety and temperance, and preferring the meat that endures to eternal life before that which perishes …
15775 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1030.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of a sealed pardon and a settled peace in this world, and for the seeing and enjoying of God in the other world. (4.) It is a great comfort to us that God …
15776 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1030.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it themselves, but that they might communicate it to others, thus showing that when they got out of the way it was not because they were afraid …
15777 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1030.25 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it, and make it the matter of our rejoicing. We must be glad to see the grace of God in others, and the more when we see it where we did not expect it …
15778 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1030.26 (Matthew Henry)
… ), he comforted or encouraged them with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord. The more he rejoiced in the beginning of the good work among them, the more earnest …
15779 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1030.31 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and benefit of his disciples. God’s people of old frequently came together, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; places of meeting …
15780 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1031.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the Comforter comes, whom the Father will send sooner or later, he will let them know of a surety what a blessed change is wrought in them, and what a happy state …