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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... mountains or hills , on which the metropolis of the beast is situated . 2d , They are seven successive or- ders or kinds of government , viz . Kings - Consuls— Tribunes - Decemvirs - Dictators - Emperors - The kingdom of the Goths in ...
... mountains or hills , on which the metropolis of the beast is situated . 2d , They are seven successive or- ders or kinds of government , viz . Kings - Consuls— Tribunes - Decemvirs - Dictators - Emperors - The kingdom of the Goths in ...
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... mountains shall melt down with their blood . " Ezek . xiv . 19 , " If I send a pestilence upon that land , And pour out my fury upon it in blood , To cut off from it man and beast . " Blood , says Grotius , denotes every kind of imma ...
... mountains shall melt down with their blood . " Ezek . xiv . 19 , " If I send a pestilence upon that land , And pour out my fury upon it in blood , To cut off from it man and beast . " Blood , says Grotius , denotes every kind of imma ...
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... mountainous part of Ely- mais bred chiefly archers . Hosea vii . 16 , " a deceitful bow . " See the same expression in Ps . lxxvii . 57 . Virgil has , " Perfidus ensis frangitur . " Hab . iii . 3 , " Thy bow was made bare , " i . e ...
... mountainous part of Ely- mais bred chiefly archers . Hosea vii . 16 , " a deceitful bow . " See the same expression in Ps . lxxvii . 57 . Virgil has , " Perfidus ensis frangitur . " Hab . iii . 3 , " Thy bow was made bare , " i . e ...
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... Mountains of brass , Zec . vi . 1. It is difficult to say what these mean , unless we interpret them , as Vitringa does , of those firm and immutable decrees by which God governs the world . The psalmist has an expression resembling it ...
... Mountains of brass , Zec . vi . 1. It is difficult to say what these mean , unless we interpret them , as Vitringa does , of those firm and immutable decrees by which God governs the world . The psalmist has an expression resembling it ...
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... mountains . " Brass is also the symbol of strength . See Ps . cvii . 16. Isa . lxv . 4 . Mich . iv . 13 , " Thine horn will I make iron , And thine hoofs will I make brass ; " i . e . to overcome all enemies , and tread them down , as ...
... mountains . " Brass is also the symbol of strength . See Ps . cvii . 16. Isa . lxv . 4 . Mich . iv . 13 , " Thine horn will I make iron , And thine hoofs will I make brass ; " i . e . to overcome all enemies , and tread them down , as ...
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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.