Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

as well as keeping away from evil. Let “ours” follow some honest labour and employment, to provide for themselves and their fami ...

Philemon Philemon was an inhabitant of Colosse, a person of some note and wealth, and a convert under the ministry of St. Paul. ...

answer not the great end of their being. But what happy changes conversion makes! of evil, good; of unprofitable, useful. Religi ...

Hebrews This epistle shows Christ as the end, foundation, body, and truth of the figures of the law, which of themselves were no ...

Verses 4–14 Many Jews had a superstitious or idolatrous respect for angels, because they had received the law and other tidings ...

The reason of his sufferings, and the fitness (10–13) of them. Christ's taking the nature of man, and not (14–18) his taking the ...

and holy uses and purposes. Christ and believers are all of one heavenly Father, who is God. They are brought into relation with ...

Saviour, our Healer, the great Physician of souls. Consider him thus. Consider what he is in himself, what he is to us, and what ...

Chapter Outline Humble, cautious fear is urged, lest any (1–10) should come short of the promised rest, through unbelief. Argume ...

was needful that the Saviour of men should be one who has the fellow-feeling which no being but a fellow-creature could possibly ...

made perfect for this great work, he is become the Author of eternal salvation to all that obey him. But are we of that number? ...

as well as of their own case, fear that there is no mercy for them, would attend to the account given of the nature of this sin, ...

Chapter 7 Chapter Outline A comparison between the priesthood of (1–3) Melchizedec and that of Christ. The excellence of Christ' ...

is distinguished from the Sinai covenant with Israel, and the legal dispensation under which the church so long remained. The be ...

Verses 7–13 The superior excellence of the priesthood of Christ, above that of Aaron, is shown from that covenant of grace, of w ...

intercession. Thus was the Lord Jesus Christ, all and in all, from the beginning. And as interpreted by the gospel, these things ...

continually depended upon it. May we ascribe all real good works to the same all-procuring cause, and offer our spiritual sacrif ...

own will place himself in the sinner's stead: Christ did so. The fountain of all that Christ has done for his people, is the sov ...

their consciences, with despair of being able to endure or to escape it. But what punishment can be sorer than to die without me ...

justification by the sufferings and merits of Christ. And the same things that are the object of our hope, are the object of our ...