13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
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And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. …
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-20)The meanest circumstances of Christ’s humiliation were all along attended with some discoveries of his glory, to balance them, and take off the offence of them; for even when he humbled himself God did in some measure exalt him and give him earnests of his future exaltation. When we saw him wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger , we were tempted to say, “Surely this cannot be the Son o…
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