8And there was great joy in that city.
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And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. …
The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. …
And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-13)Samson’s riddle is here again unriddled: Out of the eater comes forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness . The persecution that was designed to extirpate the church was by the overruling providence of God made an occasion of the enlargement of it. Christ had said, I am come to send fire on the earth ; and they thought, by scattering those who were kindled with that fire, to have put it out, but…
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