24Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
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Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? …
When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. …
And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-25)The mystery of Christ’s incarnation is to be adored, not pried into. If we know not the way of the Spirit in the formation of common persons, nor how the bones are formed in the womb of any one that is with child (Eccl. 11:5), much less do we know how the blessed Jesus was formed in the womb of the blessed virgin. When David admires how he himself was made in secret , and curiously wrought (Ps. 13…
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