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1941 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 189.15 (Matthew Henry)
… to dispense with them; but he holds them to it, and lets them know that, though Moses was dead, his commands and their promises were still in full force. He reminds …
1942 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 191.8 (Matthew Henry)
… that dispensation of darkness, bondage, and terror: but we now through Christ have access with boldness. (2.) Thus it was made to appear that the ark was able to …
1943 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 191.16 (Matthew Henry)
… Mosaic dispensation was wrapt up as in a cloud and covered with a veil, while by Christ, our Joshua, it is revealed in the ark of the covenant unveiled. (2.) It is called …
1944 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 193.5 (Matthew Henry)
… favourably dispensed with the observance of this ordinance in consideration of the unsettledness of their state, and their frequent removals while they …
1945 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 193.12 (Matthew Henry)
… God dispensed with their being uncircumcised, as he did, notwithstanding that, admit them to offer other sacrifices. But some gather from Amos 5:25 that after …
1946 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 194.11 (Matthew Henry)
… might dispense with them. The impotent man went upon this principle when he argued ( John 5:11 ), He that made me whole (and therefore has a divine power) said unto …
1947 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 195.18 (Matthew Henry)
… , the dispensation was really less severe than it seemed. In the description both of his sin and of his punishment, by the trouble that was in both, there is a plain …
1948 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 197.17 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation, much less did they pretend that no faith is to be kept with heretics, with Canaanites; no, they were strangers to the modern artifices of the …
1949 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 215.20 (Matthew Henry)
… that dispensation, God took to avenge his people of their enemies, and to manifest to the world his own justice. But it will by no means justify any now in doing …
1950 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 216.14 (Matthew Henry)
… God dispense his gifts variously, 1 Corinthians 12:4-12:11 But, though ordinarily the head of the woman is the man ( 1 Corinthians 11:3 ), he that has the residue of …
1951 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensation of the Spirit, we are not to expect signs before our eyes, such as Gideon here desired, but must earnestly pray to God that, if we have found grace …
1952 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 220.18 (Matthew Henry)
… divine dispensation, and much oftener by the transgression of men, that law which obliged them to worship only at that one altar seems not to have been so religiously …
1953 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.2 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation, and would have made him a mighty strength and ornament of their family, if they had overlooked his being illegitimate and admitted him to …
1954 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.24 (Matthew Henry)
… earth dispense with it, or give me up my bond.” The thing was my own, and in my own power ( Acts 5:4 ), but now it is not. Vow and pay, Psalms 76:11. We deceive ourselves if we …
1955 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 226.4 (Matthew Henry)
… be dispense with. It was said ( Judges 13:25 ) that the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times, and we have reason to think he himself perceived that Spirit …
1956 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 233.6 (Matthew Henry)
… be dispensed with. Those that had spared the Canaanites in many places, who were devoted to destruction by the divine command, could not find in their hearts …
1957 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 234.32 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensation, and is willing to be called Mara, bitter. Note, It well becomes us to have our hearts humbled under humbling providences. When our condition …
1958 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 237.2 (Matthew Henry)
… can dispense with; it will not agree with the lusts they have already espoused, and therefore, let who will purchase heaven at that rate, they cannot. 5. The right …
1959 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 239.13 (Matthew Henry)
… these dispensations which obliges us to acquiesce in them, how surprising soever they are: For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s. (1.) If we understand this …
1960 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 243.8 (Matthew Henry)
… was dispensed with, and the more easily because Shiloh was now dismantled; God himself had forsaken it, and the ark, which was its chief glory, they had with them …