Excerpt from An Exposition of the Old and New Testament, Vol. 3 of 5: Wherein Each Chapter Is Summed Up in Its Contents; The Sacred d104 Inserted at Large, in Distinct Paragraphs; Each Paragraph Reduced to Its Proper Heads; The Sense Given, and Largely Illustrated; With Practical Remarks and Observations
During the government of the Judges there was a pouring out of the Spirit, but more as a Spirit of conduct and courage for war, than as a Spirit of prophecy. Chorah is indeed called a prophetess, because of her extraordinary qualifications for judging Israel; but that is the only mention of prophecy, that I remember, in all the book of Judges. Extraordinary messages were sent by angels, as to Gideon and Manoah; and it is expressly said, that before the word of the Lord came to Samuel, (1 Sam. 3. It was precious, it was very scarce, there was no Open vision. And it was therefore with more than ordinary solemnity that the word of the Lord came first to Samuel; and by degrees notice and assurance were given to all Israel, that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord, v. 20.
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Henry's well-known Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1708-1710) is a commentary of a practical and devotional rather than of a critical kind, covering the whole of the Old Testament, and the Gospels and Acts in the New Testament. After the author's death, the work was finished by a number of ministers, and edited by George Burder and John Hughes in 1811. Not a work of textual criticism, its attempt at good sense, discrimination, its high moral tone and simple piety with practical application, combined with the well-sustained flow of its English style, made it one of the most popular works of its type. Matthew Henry's six volume Complete Commentary, originally published in 1706, provides an exhaustive verse by verse study of the Bible. His commentaries are still in use to this day.
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