21And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. …
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)Here is, I. The promise of the great prophet, with a command to receive him, and hearken to him. Now, 1. Some think it is the promise of a succession of prophets, that should for many ages be kept up in Israel. Besides the priests and Levites, their ordinary ministers, whose office it was to teach Jacob God’s law, they should have prophets, extraordinary ministers, to reprove them for their faults…
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