A Key to the Symbolical Language of Scripture: By which Numerous Passages are Explained and Illustrated : Founded on the Symbolical Dictionary of Daubuz, with Additions from Vitringa, Ewaldus, and OthersThomas Clark, 1840 - 512 pages |
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... customs , in short , all the learn- ing of Egypt and the East . To such endowments the present writer makes no pretension . It presented it- self to him as a branch of study that might be profit- ably occupied , as an exercise of the ...
... customs , in short , all the learn- ing of Egypt and the East . To such endowments the present writer makes no pretension . It presented it- self to him as a branch of study that might be profit- ably occupied , as an exercise of the ...
Page ix
... customs , and the like . The wisdom of God wonderfully appears in making choice of this manner of revealing his will . For sym- bols , allegories , and metaphors , greatly sharpen the human intellect , afford food for serious ...
... customs , and the like . The wisdom of God wonderfully appears in making choice of this manner of revealing his will . For sym- bols , allegories , and metaphors , greatly sharpen the human intellect , afford food for serious ...
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... custom of strewing them- selves with ashes in mourning . Thus Homer , Iliad , 18 , line 22 , & c . speaking of Achilles bewailing the death of Patroclus : " Cast on the ground , with furious hands he spread The scorching ashes o'er his ...
... custom of strewing them- selves with ashes in mourning . Thus Homer , Iliad , 18 , line 22 , & c . speaking of Achilles bewailing the death of Patroclus : " Cast on the ground , with furious hands he spread The scorching ashes o'er his ...
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... custom of invitations to feasts after sacrifices . Ezekiel seems to have imitated and amplified Isaiah xxxiv . above quoted . Kings , princes , and tyrants , are naturally expressed by rams , bulls , and he - goats . Rev. xiv . 20 ...
... custom of invitations to feasts after sacrifices . Ezekiel seems to have imitated and amplified Isaiah xxxiv . above quoted . Kings , princes , and tyrants , are naturally expressed by rams , bulls , and he - goats . Rev. xiv . 20 ...
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... custom , to receive a book may be the symbol of the inauguration of a prince . A book or roll folded up , in order to be laid aside , is the symbol of a law abrogated , or of a thing of no farther use . A book or roll , written within ...
... custom , to receive a book may be the symbol of the inauguration of a prince . A book or roll folded up , in order to be laid aside , is the symbol of a law abrogated , or of a thing of no farther use . A book or roll , written within ...
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Æneid allusion altar ancient angels appears Aristophanes Artemidorus Assyrian Babylon beast called Christ Christian Chron church cloud compared Daubuz death denote Deut divine eagle earth Egypt Egyptians emblem enemies Euripides Exod expression Ezek Ezekiel fire garments God's Gog and Magog Greek hand hath heathen heaven Hebrew Hence holy Homer horns Hosea idolatry interpreters Isaiah Israel Israelites Jehovah Jerem Jerusalem Jewish Jews Josephus Judea judgment king kingdom locusts Lord Lowth Luke Matt meaning Mede mentioned Moab mountains nations observes Oneirocritics Ovid passage Persian Plutarch priest princes prophet Prov represented Roman sacred says Scripture Septuagint serpent seven shew signifies Spirit stars symbol temple thee things thou throne tion tree unto verse viii Virgil wings word worship xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxxii Zech
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Page 51 - And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Page 224 - And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints about and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
Page 407 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Page 372 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea : 6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains ; being girded with power : 7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Page 77 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Page 409 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 462 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page 220 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Page 429 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
Page 439 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.