10Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. …
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. …
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-15)As it was usual with the Old Testament prophets to comfort the church in its calamities with the promise of the Messiah ( Isa. 9:6 ; Mic. 5:6 ; Zech. 3:8 ); so, the Messiah being come, the promise of the Spirit was the great cordial, and is still. Three things we have here concerning the Comforter’s coming :-- I. That Christ’s departure was absolutely necessary to the Comforter’s coming, John 16:7…
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