mhcc - wished

mhcc@Exodus:16:1-12 @ Verse 1-12 -...their deliverance, that they wished they...

mhcc@Numbers:14:20-35 @ Verse 20-35 -...to their children. They wished to...

mhcc@Numbers:23:11-30 @ Verse 11-30 - Balak was angry with Balaam. Thus a confession of God's overruling power is extorted from a wicked prophet, to the confusion of a wicked prince. A second time the curse is turned into a blessing; and this blessing is both larger and stronger than the former. Men change their minds, and break their words; but God never changes his mind, and therefore never recalls his promise. And when in Scripture he is said to repent, it does not mean any change of his mind; but only a change of his way. There was sin in Jacob, and God saw it; but there was not such as might provoke him to give them up to ruin. If the Lord sees that we trust in his mercy, and accept of his salvation; that we indulge no secret lust, and continue not in rebellion, but endeavour to serve and glorify him; we may be sure that he looks upon us as accepted in Christ, that our sins are all pardoned. Oh the wonders of providence and grace, the wonders of redeeming love, of pardoning mercy, of the new-...would have him, Balak wished him...18:1. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Judges:7:23-25 @ Verse 23-25 -...It were to be wished that...-labourers to the finishing and perfecting the same, and not, as often, hinder one another. **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@1Samuel:25:18-31 @ Verse 18-31 -...have a thousand times wished undone...

mhcc@1Samuel:28:7-19 @ Verse 7-19 -...dead, with whom he wished to...18:11. All real or pretended witchcraft or conjuration, is a malicious or an ignorant attempt to gain knowledge or help from some creature, when it cannot be had from the Lord in the path of duty. While Samuel was living, we never read of Saul's going to advise with him in any difficulties; it had been well for him if he had. But now he is dead, "Bring me up Samuel." Many who despise and persecute God's saints and ministers when living, would be glad to have them again, when they are gone. The whole shows that it was no human fraud or trick. Though the woman could not cause Samuel's being sent, yet Saul's inquiry might be the occasion of it. The woman's surprise and terror proved that it was an unusual and unexpected appearance. Saul had despised Samuel's solemn warnings in his lifetime, yet now that he hoped, as in defiance of God, to obtain some counsel and encouragement from him, might not God permit the soul of his departed prophet to appear to Saul, to confirm his former sentence, and denounce his doom? The expression, "Thou and thy sons shall be with me," means no more than that they shall be in the eternal world. There appears much solemnity in God's permitting the soul of a departed prophet to come as a witness from heaven, to confirm the word he had spoken on earth.

mhcc@Job:34:16-30 @ Verse 16-30 -...submit. Job had often wished to...

mhcc@Psalms:67 @ ****** Psalms 67 ****** *** Outline of Psalms 67 *** A prayer for the enlargement of Christ's kingdom. -...God's promises. The joy wished to...-comforts to us, and makes them comforts indeed. All the world shall be brought to worship Him. When the gospel begins to spread, it shall go forward more and more, till it reaches to the ends of the earth. It is good to cast in our lot with those that are the blessed of the Lord. If nothing had been spoken in Scripture respecting the conversion of the heathen, we might think it vain to attempt so hopeless a work. But when we see with what confidence it is declared in the Scriptures, we may engage in missionary labours, assured that God will fulfil his own word. And shall we be backward to make known to the heathen the knowledge with which we are favoured, and the salvation we profess to glory in? They cannot learn unless they are taught. Then let us go forward in the strength of the Lord, and look to him to accompany the word the Holy Ghost; then Satan's kingdom shall be destroyed, and the kingdom of our Redeemer established. __Outline Henry'__68 **** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Jeremiah:9:1-11 @ Verse 1-11 -...Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he...

mhcc@Amos:8:4-10 @ Verse 4-10 -...the new moons, and wished them...-comforts and enjoyments, even life itself; in the midst of life we are in death. What will be the wailing in the bitter day which follows sinful and sensual pleasures!

mhcc@Luke:9:1-9 @ Verse 1-9 -...him, or because he wished not...23:11.

mhcc@Acts:15:36-41 @ Verse 36-41 -...to end well. Barnabas wished his...

mhcc@Romans:16:21-24 @ Verse 21-24 -...it were to be wished that...

mhcc@Titus:3:12-15 @ Verse 12-15 -...chief thing to be wished and...**** Matthew Henry's Commentary ****

mhcc@Philemon:1 @ ****** Philemon 1 ****** *** General Notes on the Book of Philemon ***...of his conversion. He wished to...*** Outline of Philemon 1 *** The apostle's joy and praise for Philemon's steady faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the saints. (_1-7.) He recommends Onesimus as one who would make rich amends for the misconduct of which he had been guilty; and on behalf of whom the apostle promises to make up any loss Philemon had sustained. (_8-22.) Salutations and a blessing. (_23-25.) *** Commentary ***

mhcc@Jude:1:8-16 @ Verse 8-16 -...it appears that Satan wished to...-grounded, will certainly come into account at the day of judgment. These evil men and seducers are angry at every thing that happens, and never pleased with their own state and condition. Their will and their fancy, are their only rule and law. Those who please their sinful appetites, are most prone to yield to ungovernable passions. The men of God, from the beginning of the world, have declared the doom denounced on them. Such let us avoid. We are to follow men only as they follow Christ.

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