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mhcc@Genesis:3:16-19 @ Verse 16-19 -...few. Yet death being dreadful to...53:11. and the pains of death he was held by, are so called, Acts strkjv@2:24. Did subjection came in with sin? Christ was made under the law, Galatians strkjv@4:4. Did the curse come in with sin? Christ was made a curse for us, he died a cursed death, Galatians strkjv@3:13. Did thorns come in with sin? He was crowned with thorns for us. Did sweat come in with sin? He sweat for us, as it had been great drops of blood. Did sorrow come in with sin? He was a man of sorrows; his soul was, in his agony, exceeding sorrowful. Did death come in with sin? He became obedient unto death. Thus is the plaster as wide as the wound. Blessed be God for his Son our Lord Jesus Christ.

mhcc@Genesis:48:8-22 @ Verse 8-22 - The two good men own God in their comforts. Joseph says, They are my sons whom God has given me. Jacob says, God hath showed me thy seed. Comforts are doubly sweet to us when we see them coming from God's hand. He not only prevents our fears, but exceeds our hopes. Jacob mentions the care the Divine providence had taken of him all his days. A great deal of hardship he had known in his time, but God kept him from the evil of his troubles. Now he was dying, he looked upon himself as redeemed from all sin and sorrow for ever. Christ, the Angel of the covenant, redeems from all evil. Deliverances from misery and dangers, by the Divine power, coming through the ransom of the blood of Christ, in Scripture are often called redemption. In blessing Joseph's sons, Jacob crossed hands. Joseph was willing to support his first-born, and would have removed his father's hands. But Jacob acted neither by mistake, nor from a partial affection to one more than the other; but from a spirit of prophecy, and by the Divine counsel. God, in bestowing blessings upon his people, gives more to some than to others, more gifts, graces, and comforts, and more of the good things of this life. He often gives most to those that are least likely. He chooses the weak things of the world; he raises the poor out of the dust. Grace observes not the order of nature, nor does God prefer those whom we think fittest to be preferred, but as it pleases him. How poor are they who have no riches but those of this world! How miserable is a death-bed to those who have no well-...hope of good, but dreadful apprehensions...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Exodus:7:14-25 @ Verse 14-25 -...blood. It was a dreadful plague....

mhcc@Exodus:9:13-21 @ Verse 13-21 -...ordered to deliver a dreadful message...

mhcc@Exodus:10:21-29 @ Verse 21-29 -...of darkness were so dreadful, what...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Exodus:11:1-3 @ Verse 1-3 -...warning of the last dreadful judgment,...

mhcc@Exodus:12:29-36 @ Verse 29-36 - The Egyptians had been for three days and nights kept in anxiety and horror by the darkness; now their rest is broken by a far more terrible calamity. The plague struck their first-...be thus in that dreadful hour...-born, were now released. Men had better come to God's terms at first, for he will never come to theirs. Now Pharaoh's pride is abased, and he yields. God's word will stand; we get nothing by disputing, or delaying to submit. In this terror the Egyptians would purchase the favour and the speedy departure of Israel. Thus the Lord took care that their hard-earned wages should be paid, and the people provided for their journey.

mhcc@Exodus:15:1-21 @ Verse 1-21 -...of God, is very dreadful to...

mhcc@Exodus:40:34-38 @ Verse 34-38 -...the light, and so dreadful the...-seat. Being taught by the Holy Spirit to follow the example of Christ, as well as to depend upon him, to attend his ordinances, and obey his precepts, we shall be kept from losing our way, and be led in the midst of the paths of judgment, till we come to heaven, the habitation of his holiness. BLESSED BE GOD FOR JESUS CHRIST! **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Deuteronomy:15:1-11 @ Verse 1-11 -...sin. It is a dreadful thing...2Corinthians strkjv@9:7.

mhcc@Deuteronomy:20:10-12 @ Verse 10-12 -...guilty world. But how dreadful their...-trees should not be destroyed. God is a better friend to man than he is to himself; and God's law consults our interests and comforts; while our own appetites and passions, which we indulge, are enemies to our welfare. Many of the Divine precepts restrain us from destroying that which is for our life and food. The Jews understand this as forbidding all wilful waste upon any account whatsoever. Every creature of God is good; as nothing is to be refused, so nothing is to be abused. We may live to want what we carelessly waste. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Deuteronomy:25:17-19 @ Verse 17-19 -...judgement comes, the more dreadful will...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Deuteronomy:29:10-21 @ Verse 10-21 -...book of God more dreadful than...

mhcc@Joshua:5:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 - How dreadful is their case, who see the wrath of God advancing towards them, without being able to turn it aside, or escape it! Such will be the horrible situation of the wicked; nor can words express the anguish of their feelings, or the greatness of their terror. Oh that they would now take warning, and before it be too late, flee for refuge to lay hold upon that hope set before them in the gospel! God impressed these fears on the Canaanites, and dispirited them. This gave a short rest to the Israelites, and circumcision rolled away the reproach of Egypt. They were hereby owned to be the free-born children of God, having the seal of the covenant. When God glorifies himself in perfecting the salvation of his people, he not only silences all enemies, but rolls back their reproaches upon themselves.

mhcc@1Kings:15:25-34 @ Verse 25-34 -...in the midst of dreadful sins..._1__16 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@1Kings:16:29-34 @ Verse 29-34 - Ahab did evil above all that reigned before him, and did it with a particular enmity both against Jehovah and Israel. He was not satisfied with breaking the second commandment by image-...us to mark the dreadful end..._1__17 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@Esther:3:7-15 @ Verse 7-15 -...could consent to a dreadful proposal,...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Job:3:1-10 @ Verse 1-10 -...bitter cup are more dreadful than...

mhcc@Job:9:25-35 @ Verse 25-35 - What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time continues! The remembrance of having done our duty will be pleasing afterwards; so will not the remembrance of having got worldly wealth, when it is all lost and gone. Job's complaint of God, as one that could not be appeased and would not relent, was the language of his corruption. There is a Mediator, a Daysman, or Umpire, for us, even God's own beloved Son, who has purchased peace for us with the blood of his cross, who is able to save to the uttermost all who come unto God through him. If we trust in his name, our sins will be buried in the depths of the sea, we shall be washed from all our filthiness, and made whiter than snow, so that none can lay any thing to our charge. We shall be clothed with the robes of righteousness and salvation, adorned with the graces of the Holy Spirit, and presented faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. May we learn the difference between justifying ourselves, and being thus justified by God himself. Let the tempest-...others have passed this dreadful gulf;...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Job:10:14-22 @ Verse 14-22 -...seek deliverance from that dreadful state,...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Psalms:98:4-9 @ Verse 4-9 -...But sin and its dreadful effects...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Proverbs:5:1-14 @ Verse 1-14 - Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some, by the adulterous woman, here understand idolatry, false doctrine, which tends to lead astray men's minds and manners; but the direct view is to warn against seventh-...repentance may prevent the dreadful consequences...-ruined sinner in the eternal world, enduring the remorse of his conscience!

mhcc@Isaiah:6:9-13 @ Verse 9-13 -...are secured against this dreadful danger....**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Isaiah:30:1-7 @ Verse 1-7 -...can we avoid the dreadful consequences...

mhcc@Jeremiah:3:6-11 @ Verse 6-11 -...evil ways. It is dreadful to...

mhcc@Ezekiel:1 @ ****** Ezekiel 1 ****** *** General Notes on the Book of Ezekiel ***...to warn of the dreadful calamities...*** Outline of Ezekiel 1 *** Ezekiel's vision of God, and of the angelic host. (_1-14.) The conduct of Divine Providence. (_15-25.) A revelation of the Son of man upon his heavenly throne. (_26-28.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Daniel:4:1-18 @ Verse 1-18 -...his name, even the dreadful prevention...

mhcc@Daniel:10:1-9. @ Verse 1-9. -...bear the sight. How dreadful soever...

mhcc@Hosea:9:1-6 @ Verse 1-6 - Israel gave rewards to their idols, in the offerings presented to them. It is common for those who are niggardly in religion, to be prodigal upon their lusts. Those are reckoned as idolaters, who love a reward in the corn-...No famine is so dreadful as...

mhcc@Zechariah:1:1-6 @ Verse 1-6 -...our friend, and very dreadful to...-dying souls, and an awful eternity, upon the brink of which both are standing! In another world, both we and our prophets shall live for ever: to prepare for that world ought to be our great care in this. The preachers died, and the hearers died, but the word of God died not; not one jot or title of it fell to the ground; for he is righteous.

mhcc@Malachi:4:1-3 @ Verse 1-3 -...is coming, far more dreadful to...

mhcc@Malachi:4:4-6 @ Verse 4-6 -...for the great and dreadful day...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Matthew:24:42-51 @ Verse 42-51 -...found ready, but very dreadful to...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Matthew:26:36-46 @ Verse 36-46 -...to gloom and every dreadful conclusion:...

mhcc@Matthew:27:51-56 @ Verse 51-56 - The rending of the veil signified that Christ, by his death, opened a way to God. We have an open way through Christ to the throne of grace, or mercy-...what is written. The dreadful appearances...

mhcc@Luke:17:20-37 @ Verse 20-37 -...is shown what a dreadful surprise...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@John:5:10-16 @ Verse 10-16 -...afflictions are severe, how dreadful will...

mhcc@Acts:3:22-26 @ Verse 22-26 -...the Jews of the dreadful consequences...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Acts:28:1-10 @ Verse 1-10 -...that murder is a dreadful crime,...

mhcc@Romans:3:19,20 @ Verse 19,20 -...before God, is a dreadful word;...

mhcc@Romans:5:6-11 @ Verse 6-11 -...manner, must be more dreadful than...-sufficient Portion, through Christ only.

mhcc@Romans:11:1-10 @ Verse 1-10 -...the Jews, foretells the dreadful judgments...69. This teaches us how to understand other prayers of David against his enemies; they are prophecies of the judgments of God, not expressions of his own anger. Divine curses will work long; and we have our eyes darkened, if we are bowed down in worldly-mindedness.

mhcc@1Corinthians:5:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 -...spread such scandals. How dreadful the...

mhcc@Galatians:1:6-9 @ Verse 6-9 - Those who would establish any other way to heaven than what the gospel of Christ reveals, will find themselves wretchedly mistaken. The apostle presses upon the Galatians a due sense of their guilt in forsaking the gospel way of justification; yet he reproves with tenderness, and represents them as drawn into it by the arts of some that troubled them. In reproving others, we should be faithful, and yet endeavour to restore them in the spirit of meekness. Some would set up the works of the law in the place of Christ's righteousness, and thus they corrupted Christianity. The apostle solemnly denounces, as accursed, every one who attempts to lay so false a foundation. All other gospels than that of the grace of Christ, whether more flattering to self-...betray others into so dreadful a...

mhcc@Galatians:3:23-25 @ Verse 23-25 -...awakened sinner discovers his dreadful condition....-examination. In this use of it he learns to depend more simply on the Saviour.

mhcc@Colossians:2:8-17 @ Verse 8-17 - There is a philosophy which rightly exercises our reasonable faculties; a study of the works of God, which leads us to the knowledge of God, and confirms our faith in him. But there is a philosophy which is vain and deceitful; and while it pleases men's fancies, hinders their faith: such are curious speculations about things above us, or no concern to us. Those who walk in the way of the world, are turned from following Christ. We have in Him the substance of all the shadows of the ceremonial law. All the defects of it are made up in the gospel of Christ, by his complete sacrifice for sin, and by the revelation of the will of God. To be complete, is to be furnished with all things necessary for salvation. By this one word "complete," is shown that we have in Christ whatever is required. "In him," not when we look to Christ, as though he were distant from us, but we are in him, when, by the power of the Spirit, we have faith wrought in our hearts by the Spirit, and we are united to our Head. The circumcision of the heart, the crucifixion of the flesh, the death and burial to sin and to the world, and the resurrection to newness of life, set forth in baptism, and by faith wrought in our hearts, prove that our sins are forgiven, and that we are fully delivered from the curse of the law. Through Christ, we, who were dead in sins, are quickened. Christ's death was the death of our sins; Christ's resurrection is the quickening of our souls. The law of ordinances, which was a yoke to the Jews, and a partition-wall to the Gentiles, the Lord Jesus took out of the way. When the substance was come, the shadows fled. Since every mortal man is, through the hand-...of death, how very dreadful is...-writing can be blotted out! Let not any be troubled about bigoted judgments which related to meats, or the Jewish solemnities. The setting apart a portion of our time for the worship and service of God, is a moral and unchangeable duty, but had no necessary dependence upon the seventh day of the week, the sabbath of the Jews. The first day of the week, or the Lord's day, is the time kept holy by Christians, in remembrance of Christ's resurrection. All the Jewish rites were shadows of gospel blessings.

mhcc@Hebrews:10:26-31 @ Verse 26-31 -...they have despised. How dreadful is...

mhcc@2Peter:2:17-22 @ Verse 17-22 -...the heaviest condemnation. How dreadful is..._2__3 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary **** _

mhcc@2Peter:3:5-10 @ Verse 5-10 -...these scoffers considered the dreadful vengeance...-suffering, and that to us-ward; it is giving more time to hisown people, to advance in knowledge and holiness, and in the exercise of faith and patience, to abound in good works, doing and suffering what they are called to, that they may bring glory to God. Settle therefore in your hearts that you shall certainly be called to give an account of all things done in the body, whether good or evil. And let a humble and diligent walking before God, and a frequent judging of yourselves, show a firm belief of the future judgment, though many live as if they were never to give any account at all. This day will come, when men are secure, and have no expectation of the day of the Lord. The stately palaces, and all the desirable things wherein wordly-minded men seek and place their happiness, shall be burned up; all sorts of creatures God has made, and all the works of men, must pass through the fire, which shall be a consuming fire to all that sin has brought into the world, though a refining fire to the works of God's hand. What will become of us, if we set our affections on this earth, and make it our portion, seeing all these things shall be burned up? Therefore make sure of happiness beyond this visible world.

mhcc@Jude:1 @ Henry'_3_1 ****** Jude 1 ****** *** General Notes on the Book of Jude *** This epistle is addressed to all believers in the gospel. Its design appears to be to guard believers against the false teachers who had begun to creep into the Christian church, and to scatter dangerous tenets, by attempting to lower all Christianity into a merely nominal belief and outward profession of the gospel. Having thus denied the obligations of personal holiness, they taught their disciples to live in sinful courses, at the same time flattering them with the hope of eternal life. The vile character of these seducers is shown, and their sentence is denounced, and the epistle concludes with warnings, admonitions, and counsels to believers. *** Outline of Jude 1 *** The apostle exhorts to stedfastness in the faith. (_1-4.)...false professors, and the dreadful punishment...(_5-7.) An awful description of these seducers and their deplorable end. (_8-16.) Believers cautioned against being surprised at such deceivers arising among them. (_17-23.) The epistle ends with an encouraging doxology, or words of praise. (_24,25.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Revelation:3:1-6. @ Verse 1-6. - The Lord Jesus is He that hath the Holy Spirit with all his powers, graces, and operations. Hypocrisy, and lamentable decay in religion, are sins charged upon Sardis, by One who knew that church well, and all her works. Outward things appeared well to men, but there was only the form of godliness, not the power; a name to live, not a principle of life. There was great deadness in their souls, and in their services; numbers were wholly hypocrites, others were in a disordered and lifeless state. Our Lord called upon them to be watchful against their enemies, and to be active and earnest in their duties; and to endeavour, in dependence on the grace of the Holy Spirit, to revive and strengthen the faith and spiritual affections of those yet alive to God, though in a declining state. Whenever we are off our watch, we lose ground. Thy works are hollow and empty; prayers are not filled up with holy desires, alms-...his counsel with a dreadful threatening...

mhcc@Revelation:6:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 -...and persecution is a dreadful judgment;...55:1. But when the dark clouds of ignorance and superstition, denoted by the black horse, spread over the Christian world, the knowledge and practice of true religion became scarce. When a people loathe their spiritual food, God may justly deprive them of their daily bread. The famine of bread is a terrible judgment; but the famine of the word is more so. Upon opening the fourth seal, another horse appeared, of a pale colour. The rider was Death, the king of terrors. The attendants, or followers of this king of terrors, hell, a state of eternal misery to all who die in their sins; and in times of general destruction, multitudes go down unprepared into the pit. The period of the fourth seal is one of great slaughter and devastation, destroying whatever may tend to make life happy, making ravages on the spiritual lives of men. Thus the mystery of iniquity was completed, and its power extended both over the lives and consciences of men. The exact times of these four seals cannot be ascertained, for the changes were gradual. God gave them power, that is, those instruments of his anger, or those judgments: all public calamities are at his command; they only go forth when God sends them, and no further than he permits.

mhcc@Revelation:7:1-8 @ Verse 1-8 -...winds together, means a dreadful and...

mhcc@Revelation:8:7-13 @ Verse 7-13 -...it is followed with dreadful judgments....**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Revelation:9:13-21 @ Verse 13-21 -...repented not under these dreadful judgments....**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Revelation:14 @ ****** Revelation 14 ****** *** Outline of Revelation 14 *** Those faithful to Christ celebrate the praises of God. (_1-5.)...and a third, the dreadful wrath...(_6-13.) A vision of Christ with a sickle, and of a harvest ripe for cutting down. (_14-16.) The emblem of a vintage fully ripe, trodden in the wine-press of God's wrath. (_17-20.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Revelation:20:4-6 @ Verse 4-6 -...must be much more dreadful; it...-powerful working of the Holy Spirit, fallen man will be new-...what a variety of dreadful pains,...

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