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2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. …
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; …
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)The church of God, in its several ages, is here spoken of, or, rather, here speaks, as one single person, now old and gray-headed, but calling to remembrance the former days, and reflecting upon the times of old. And, upon the review, it is found, 1. That the church has been often greatly distressed by its enemies on earth: Israel may now say , “I am the people that has been oppressed more than an…
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