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"The better day, the worse deed."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Genesis iii.
Commentaries. Genesis iii.
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"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Genesis iii.
Commentaries. Genesis iii.
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"So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Job iii.
Commentaries. Job iii.
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"To their own second thoughts."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Job vi.
Commentaries. Job vi.
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"He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Psalm xxxvi.
Commentaries. Psalm xxxvi.
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"Our creature comforts."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Psalm xxxvii.
Commentaries. Psalm xxxvii.
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"None so deaf as those that will not hear."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Psalm lviii.
Commentaries. Psalm lviii.
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"They that die by famine die by inches."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Psalm lix.
Commentaries. Psalm lix.
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"To fish in troubled waters."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Psalm lx.
Commentaries. Psalm lx.
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"Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Psalm civ.
Commentaries. Psalm civ.
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"Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Ecclesiastes vii.
Commentaries. Ecclesiastes vii.
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"It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.""
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Isaiah xxx.
Commentaries. Isaiah xxx.
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"Blushing is the colour of virtue."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Jeremiah iii.
Commentaries. Jeremiah iii.
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"It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Jeremiah vii.
Commentaries. Jeremiah vii.
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"None so blind as those that will not see."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Jeremiah xx.
Commentaries. Jeremiah xx.
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"Not lost, but gone before."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Matthew ii.
Commentaries. Matthew ii.
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"Those that are above business."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Matthew xx.
Commentaries. Matthew xx.
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"Saying and doing are two things."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Matthew xxi.
Commentaries. Matthew xxi.
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"Judas had given them the slip."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Matthew xxii.
Commentaries. Matthew xxii.
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"After a storm comes a calm."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Acts ix.
Commentaries. Acts ix.
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"Men of polite learning and a liberal education."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Acts x.
Commentaries. Acts x.
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"It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Timothy i.
Commentaries. Timothy i.
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"It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with."
Mathew Henry / Commentaries. Timothy iii.
Commentaries. Timothy iii.
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