Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKEBut this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.
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But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands.
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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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He will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
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